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Interview by Joan d’Arc Self-professed “barfly” Robert Eringer has been a private intelligence consultant, undercover operative, journalist, novelist, editor and literary agent. His latest book RUSE, tells of his assignment to lure CIA-turned-KGB agent...

Some days, the poll-manufactured drama of the long and laborious 2016 campaign is presented as though it’s the only development in the life of the planet that’s current and newsworthy. We lose the larger picture. In truth, a super-rich guy’s affront...

The Genial Time Traveler THE STORY OF THE JEWS Finding the Words, 1000 BC-1492 AD Simon Schama Ecco/HarperCollins 2014, pp. 496, $39.99 The great Jewish historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, who died in 2009, famously declared that history was &ldquo...

The battle between fear and hope is as old as America. We have always been idealists -- and suspicious. Some days, the poll-manufactured drama of the long and laborious 2016 campaign is presented as though it’s the only development in the life of the...

Image by Don Tate (used with permission) By Cynthia Leitich Smith for Cynsations Congratulations to Austin author Chris Barton and Austin illustrator Don Tate on the release of The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans, 2015) From the promotional...