Bookish: Other Locales (3#) -

We have not read the last of historian Tony Judt. A book of his memoirs is to be published later this year called The Memory Chalet. From it, The Guardian shares a fragmentary essay warmly recollecting his childhood spent in the southwest section of London called Putney.

# Levantine writer Albert Cossary is due for a revival, opines David L Ulin, as he delves into a couple of re-issues of that author's work at the LAT.

# DangerNet: anonymous blogger gives
an inside view of the Mexican narco war.

...