Historian, biographer, historical novelist, and statesman, John Buchan found an enduring reputation in popular fiction. The "Buchan touch" is a term applied to fiction that shares his appeal: romantic yet not preposterous characters and a superb sense of...
Despite his achievements as historian, biographer, historical novelist, and statesman, it is for his thrillers that John Buchan has found an enduring reputation in popular letters. The "Buchan touch" is a name applied to fiction which shares his appeal:...
Many contemporaries knew John Buchan, or Tweedsmuir, only as journalist and statesman. Some readers knew him as historian and biographer. But most readers in both England and America knew Buchan best for his fiction, as the writer of the exciting adventu...
Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 402 pp., $24.00. Brown, the distinguished author of Tender Mercies and Civil Wars, returns in this new novel to her two most enduring thematic preoccupations: family relationships and the racial divide in America. ...
FINALLY, the Navy has delivered an apology of sorts to the family of Clayton Hartwig, a seaman who had been blamed for the explosion on the USS Iowa in 1989. The blast killed Petty Officer Hartwig and 46 shipmates, and after an initial botched...
