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Charles Moore's 'Margaret Thatcher' Is A Softer Iron Lady

Annalisa Quinn — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:03:00 +0000

Early on in Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, he describes a birthday party at which a school friend tells the future prime minister, "If you don't stop bossing us, I shall stamp on your foot."

It's not hard to imagine that a great many people have wished they could say the same thing to her over the 11 years Thatcher spent as prime minister of the United Kingdom, from members of Parliament to routed Argentine generals. But in his new biography, Moore tries to soften the image of a bossy, domineering Iron Lady.

In Salter's Novels, The Ladies ARE Lunch

Lidia Jean Kott — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:03:00 +0000

This spring, James Salter published All That Is, his first novel in nearly 35 years — and the critics could not have been more excited.

When Love Is 'In The House'

Michael Schaub — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:03:00 +0000

"Love is not all," warned the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. "It is not meat nor drink / Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain." She was right, of course, but if there were ever any advice destined to fall on stubbornly deaf ears, this is it. Love is not all, but it always feels like it is, whether you're happily partnered or bereft.

That's also why it's a notoriously difficult subject for writers, though god knows it hasn't stopped them from trying, with very mixed results.

SCOTUS Watch: High Court Could Decide Four Major Cases

Eyder Peralta — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:40:00 +0000

At around 10 a.m. ET, the Supreme Court will begin handing down some of the final opinions of their 2012 term. The court usually sets out for its summer recess at the end of June, which means we're quickly running out of time for the justices to issue their opinion on four major cases argued earlier in the term.

As we've told you before, we're waiting for:

— Fisher v.

Parisians Encouraged To Be Kinder To Tourists

editor — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:35:00 +0000
A new campaign will distribute 30,000 pamphlets called "do you speak touriste?" It includes among other things, greetings in eight languages and cultural clues.