This book is one of those marvelous ones that manages to do many things at once. You can be depressed and uplifted simultaneously. The simplicity of the narration and the ordinary-ness of this society that Ivan Denisovich Shukhov finds himself a member of is all the more chilling for it, but also wa...
Marvin Kalb had his phone lines tapped by the Nixon White House. Several years later he was intrigued by a story in The New York Times that reported the contents of a memo written by Richard Nixon castigating the Bush administration for failing to provide a higher level of support for Russian demo...