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Reading recommendations from a pandemic year Poets and politicians, sportsmen and theatre personalities look back at 2020 through the books they read Updated: December 20, 2020 12:12:44 pm Here are the books authors read this year. (Source: Getty Images) Aruni Kashyap writer I think everyone in India should read Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (2020, Simon and Schuster) — it is an urgent and topical book set in an India of the future, a work of speculative fiction. I don’t read a lot in this genre, but I think speculative fiction has the ability to caut...

A Moveable Feast All Dressed up For Christmas In 1963, I had been dating my then-boyfriend for a little over a year when he invited me home to Las Vegas to spend Christmas with his family. My mother, realizing I would be missing our family’s Christmas celebration, reached into her apron pocket (Yes, Evie wore aprons!) and pulled out an old Scandinavian custom—Lil Jul Aften, aka Little Christmas Eve. According to her Lil Jul Aften was celebrated the Sunday before Christmas. It included a ham dinner with all the fixings—scalloped potatoes, sweet potatoes with tiny marshmallows, and, of co...

¨We need a little Christmas. Right this very minute," has never been more true than in 2020. And yes, a little Hanukkah and Kwanzaa would be nice as well. In a year of a surging pandemic, economic uncertainty, protests and political unrest, dashed hopes for travel and socializing and—locally—an earthquake and windstorm for good measure, why wouldn't we be seeking comfort and cheer? This is the year that's given rise to day-drinking in home offices, the "quaran-tini" and Zoom cocktail hours. And, while there's light at the end of the tunnel, we remain stuck in amber for this holiday seaso...

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Many people in the republican party at that time were shifting to this very moscow friendly moscow centered sort of relationship on the basis of donald trump's only interest in making nice with vladmir putin. with trump, that goes back years. for him to come on to the campaign, the first thing he would have wanted to do for someone that was watching his behaviors is to prove to them that he actually had the juice to make a substantial change that moscow could appreciate. that, of course, was changing the platform, not to the ukrainian government. >> one of the theories of the case here was tha...