It’s summer, so we’ve asked The World’s book critic Chris Merril for some good beach reads – or for those of us in parts of the country that are totally water logged, good rainy day reads. Chris never fails to connect us with good books from all over the globe – read his recommendations here.
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Today on The World: A government curfew fails to cool ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese in western China; also, the obstacles that could make it hard for the United States and Russia to start on a new and improved relationship; plus, how technology activists around the world are working to help Iranians get [...]
