Interrogative, from the Latin rogare, to ask. And Valentino Achak Deng has plenty to ask, for all time. One of the Lost Boys of Sudan, fleeing the Sudanese war, Valentino is granted a visa to enter the US, a country of limitless opportunity compared to his native Sudan. Sudan, a country racked by civil war [...]

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Cece Caruso is a detective firmly ensconced in the noir genre, with the mad capers of Hammett et al. being templates for her investigative jaunts. Susan Kandel’s female detective is tough, sassy and Sam Spade-obsessed to a fault. While one might not see how a demure female can pull off impersonating a hard man such [...]

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Whoever knew Stephen Fry was an author, and a damn good one at that. The Stars’ Tennis Balls is a thinly veiled modern remake of The Count of Monte Cristo, that Dumasian epic. The Count is Ned Maddstone, a golden boy horribly wronged and intentionally framed by his best friends, sentenced to an insane asylum [...]

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