NEW LISTINGS
The Dust of Empire:
The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland,
Hitler Came for Niemoeller, and
From Toad Slime to Ecstasy

REVIEWS
Rainbow's End
The Crash of 1929
"Rock-a-bye, trader, on the tip top.
When the Board meets, the market will rock.
When the rate rises, quotations will fall.
And down will come trader, margins and all."

The Life and Death of Minneapolis's Skid Row
"Twenty-five blocks of
19th and early 20th century buildings
fell to the wrecking ball.
It represented more than 40%
of downtown Minneapolis.
The press of the time called it
an occasion for civic rejoicing.
By 1965, most of this area
had been turned into parking lots
and buildings of pure glass and steel."

Pieces of Payne
"She hummed.
She scanned the sky all night and
kept the stars from falling asleep by
serenading them with
The British Grenadiers and
The Galway Piper.
They may have sung back to her
in return. "

Great Reviews of the Past
The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps
"They rise up hotly
out of the sweaty, jism-encrusted beds
(no sheets; no pillowcases) and,
without bothering to shower
or even wash their hands
they pry open a can of tuna
with a pocket-knife and
pick it out and
stuff it in their mouths and
somehow score a case of
Mickey's Wide-Mouth."

BRIEF REVIEWS
Henry James' In the Cage,
A. L. Barker's Gooseboy, and
Sleeping with the Dictionary