SLAUGHTER WITH A SMILE

Dennis Perrin reviews The Liberal Defense of Murder.

Richard Seymour, who oversees Lenin's Tomb, has delivered the best indictment of liberal warmongering to date, and just in time, too, as it appears we're about to enter another period of humanitarian barbarism led by a Democratic president.

JOHN UPDIKE 1932-2009

The Boston Globe has an obituary. He wrote 27 novels, 13 short story collections, books of poetry, nonfiction and essays, at least one play. Just yesterday I'd read a book review he had written recently for the New Yorker; he had contributed to the magazine since 1954.

A two-part interview made in 1995:-