Reading this for my next book club meeting... It's a story from the perspective of the "mad woman in the attic" in Bronte's Jane Eyre. Sounds like a great read.

Quoted: Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell.

My International Examiner review of Raj Patel's book about the global food crisis!

Quoted: The global food crisis certainly isn’t starved for media attention. Turn to any news organization and rising food prices are making headlines alongside the rising cost of gas. With all the recent coverage, it seems like a problem that came out of left field.

This is our next book club read - looking forward to checking it out!

Quoted: No one who attacks the humanitarian aid establishment is going to win any popularity contests, but, neither, it seems, is that establishment winning any contests with the people it is supposed to be helping.

Looking forward to reading Jhumpa Lahiri's third book!

Quoted: The legacy of growing up in the grip of a globally mobile heritage is once again Jhumpa Lahiri's theme in her third book, Unaccustomed Earth. In a collection of stories as limpid yet complex as her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, she returns to familiar terrain—most of her Indians are highly educated, upper-middle-class suburbanites on the Boston-New York corridor—and to her well-honed role.

Sweet! Looks like I'm going to be interviewing Pico Iyer about this book!

Quoted: One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.

This reminds me a lot of the Indian educational comic books...

Quoted: A new textbook shows that the Holocaust has come a long way as a topic to be freshly considered by a new generation of German teenagers.

I saw a lecture that this guy gave online. I don't always agree with him (he seems really into the Freudian school of psych) but his ideas are fascinating all the same...

Quoted: Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes.