Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West by the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto (which you heard about here earlier) will be released on February 12.--David E

Oh, you tired, underpaid publishing industry insiders, at last your story can be told. The Onion has the inside scoop on how Rupert Murdoch tried to drive Judith Regan to quit her job as the head of Regan Books, attempted publisher of OJ Simpson's If I Did It. Enjoy the semi-truth.--David E

The latest New York Review of Books has an article on Gertrude Bell, the British woman who was appointed as the senior political officer in British-run Basra, Iraq, from 1916 to 1926. Bell was an "Arabist," who threw herself headlong into the Middle East, its peoples and its culture. She's even buried in Baghdad (NPR … Continue reading New Review