Bosnia and Herzegovina

Wash Post Gives Clinton Tale 'Four Pinocchios,' Obama Camp Pounces

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Hillary Clinton's dramatic telling of her trip to Tuzla has for months caused snickering and eye-rolling among reporters, but today the Washington Post takes the time to truth-squad the story, a convenient development for the Obama campaign, which spent a morning conference call questioning Clinton's relationship with the truth and her electability.

Here's a release just issued by the Obama campaign:  read more »

A Satire for Our Times- Funny, Violent, Vicious

Absurdistan is the sort of novel that, if mishandled, could make for a truly fabulous mess.  read more »

A Satire for Our Times— Funny, Violent, Vicious

Gary Shteyngart
Marion Ettlinger
Gary Shteyngart

Absurdistan is the sort of novel that, if mishandled, could make for a truly fabulous mess.  read more »

Rieff Encounter

"I think I'm American in all sorts of essential ways," said the 52-year-old war journalist David Rie  read more »

Juggling Incongruities: Weschler's Literate Talent

Vermeerin Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies , by Lawrence Weschler.  read more »