How not to run an economy
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Beyond Reach?
A fictionalized account of the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.
- Peter Whittaker
- January 20, 2010
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Transforming Pakistan: Ways out of instability
Hilary Synnott’s book is a useful introduction to Pakistan’s past, present and possible future.
Murder without Borders
Vancouver-based journalist Terry Gould tells the stories of six journalists who paid with their lives for refusing to surrender their conviction that journalism is meant to be about ‘telling the truth’.
- Richard Swift
- November 22, 2009
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Natural Selection
Szperling’s short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society.
- Peter Whittaker
- October 21, 2009
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Thursday Night Widows
Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the ‘whodunnit’ aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.
- Peter Whittaker
- October 21, 2009
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2666
It takes a singular talent to make a book of 1,000 pages that is as hard to put down as it is to pick up. Despite its size, 2666 retains the agility of a thriller.
- David Ransom
- September 20, 2009
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