Americana columns
The Shoes The World Couldn’t Dodge
This week life imitated art when President George W. Bush dodged shoes hurled at him by an Iraqi journalist.
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Duped by a Celebrity Dream
As a UK newspaper put it, her rise from small-town girl to global icon demonstrates “the endless possibilities of the American Dream.”
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Hannibal the Cannibal has Crime Fiction for Breakfast
Evelyn Waugh described him as ‘the greatest living American novelist.’ T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden were equally big fans.
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