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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. . - Books: dying for God's sins - book review Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. By Dai Sijie. Translated by Ina Rilke. Knopf 197 pp., $18.00. VLADAMIR NABOKOV once noted that "life not ......(Continue Reading) 'This is not the country it was when Labour returned to power in 1997': what do we mean by multiculturalism? In Britain, it once meant embracing the diverse Returning to America after an absence of 20 years, Henry James wrote, in The American Scene (1907), of his unease at the arrival in New York of so many ......(Continue Reading)Reconciled in worship WHEN MY WIFE, Darrah, and I met Andy in the Los Angeles airport, we thought we would never have a real conversation with him. This tall, muscular guy ......(Continue Reading)A MOnTh OF SunDAYS March 27 Easter Sunday Readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Col. 3:1-4 or 1Cor. 5:6b-8; Jn. 20:1-9 or Mt. 28:1-10 "Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has ......(Continue Reading)More Hackney than Bollywood The British want ethnic minorities to be romantic, exotic, and above all non-Muslim. It's just another way of saying that we don't belong here. When ......(Continue Reading)
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