Reviews

• The magical world of Philip Pullman's 'Golden Compass'
• Daniel Boone, unplugged
• Hail to the chiefs
• Letters to Santa
• Killer gifts for guys
• Lovely gifts for literary folks
• Artistic expression
• Personal and political
• Height of fashion
• Silver screen books
• Finding faith on the page
• Old and new world wine writing
• Raining cats and dogs
• Far, far away
• Behind the music
• Classics of children's literature
• Kids got book smarts
• Pigging out for the holidays
• Kate DiCamillo's magical Christmas tale
• The charmed lives of Gilded Age teens
• Christmas, Chinese style
• What d'ya know, the Grinch is 5-0!
• Final novel from a romance legend
• These gods must be crazy
• A portrait of real life in Saudi Arabia
• Loving Latin, ad infinitum
• The land of vanishing ice
• Digging in with Prince Charles
• A brief, miraculous reunion
• Myriad musings from John Updike, an American master
• One last work from Jan de Hartog
• Visualizing the Age of Discovery
• Bright lights nitty-gritty
• What little girls are made of