Archive for June, 2007

The Road, Discussed

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, one of my favorite novels this year, is this month’s Slate book club selection, and the site’s Meghan O’Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and John Burnham Schwartz discuss the novel in this podcast.

Hostage Crisis, Redux

Friday, June 1st, 2007

The Iranian government has arrested and jailed a fourth person with dual Iranian and American citizenships. His name is Ali Shakeri and he is a California businessman and founding member of UCI’s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. I am starting to put more credence in the theory that is floating around, and which one of my readers emailed me about: That Iran would like to trade these four Iranian American prisoners for the five Iranian diplomats abducted in Iraq in January.

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