The complete online text of Eirik the Red's Saga.

INTERESTING TIMES A Twentieth-Century Life By Eric Hobsbawm Pantheon. 448 pp. $30 Can an autobiography illuminate the past if its author reveals little about his personal life? "Like so much else, then and later," Eric Hobsbawm reflects about a childhood...

INTERESTING TIMES is that curious hybrid, an impersonal autobiography. One learns from it rather more about the society and politics of the 20th century than about the inner life of Eric Hobsbawm. He largely writes as the analytical historian, pointing out how the relatively...