Jonathan Yardley- October 30, 2005 John Hope Franklin's story is the stuff of American legend. Born in Oklahoma 90 years ago, into a family that was making its way into the middle class, he graduated with distinction from Fisk University, then earned his doctorate in history at Harvard. He rose steadily through the teaching ranks, moving from North Carolina College to Howard University to Brooklyn University to the University of Chicago to Duke. He published scholarly works of distinction and originality, most notably From...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... The Story of Us: Revisiting Jamestown's Difficult Birth- October 25, 2005 A LAND AS GOD MADE IThttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- October 23, 2005 Born and reared in India, schooled in England and the United States, resident at various times of all three of those countries as well as China, Vikram Seth is a genuinely international man, the personification and embodiment of globalism. He is also an amazingly gifted, accomplished, resourceful and charming writer. Published first as a poet and travel writer, he astonished and delighted readers with his first novel, The Golden Gate (1986), inspired by Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and written, as...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... From Ivory Tower to Conning Tower- October 18, 2005 ANNAPOLIS AUTUMNhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Self-Portrait Of a Reluctant Revolutionary- October 17, 2005http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- October 16, 2005 "The best thing you can do, always, is tell the truth and take the consequences." That's what Alan MacKenzie's father used to tell him, but now that Alan is in his early fifties and carrying on an affair with "the famous writer Delia Delaney, the author of Womenfaith (spiritual essays), Dreamworks (poetry), and Moon Tales (modern fairy stories)," he isn't giving his father's advice the time of day. He's been married to pert, perky Jane for 16 years, but the bloom fell off that rose a while...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Contemptuous Consumption- October 11, 2005 DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLEhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- October 9, 2005 THE LINCOLN LAWYERhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Hawkeye Pierce, Doctor of Letters- October 4, 2005 NEVER HAVE YOUR DOG STUFFEDhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- October 2, 2005 THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKINGhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... |