Homegrown challenge
KALEON RAHAN gives you the lowdown on the world of comics. thestar.com.my
Essay: Amis and Islam
Martin Amis’s angry, off-the-cuff comments about Islam set off an old-fashioned literary donnybrook in Britain. nytimes.com
Books of The Times: Deadly Players on a Financial Killing Field
In “The Finder,” as in earlier thrillers like “Manhattan Nocturne” and “The Havana Room,” Colin Harrison combines a Balzacian eye for social detail and a poet’s sense of mood with a sleazily sensationalistic plot. nytimes.com
Religious Intent
A Christian America? A secular America? Steven Waldman argues the founders had in mind something else entirely. nytimes.com
Excerpt: 'The New Asian Hemisphere'
Read an excerpt from The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East by Kishore Mahbubani. npr.org