An op-ed by columnist Anne Applebaum on the passing of Margaret Thatcher in the April 9 edition of The Washington Post: “Big Issues on a Big Stage”

A book review in the April 7 issue of The New York Times by Garth Risk Hallberg: “Ghosts of Budapest” The book is ‘Siege 13,’ by Tamas Dobozy, Milkweed Editions, $16, 339 pp.

A book review by Evan Thomas in the March 30 edition of The Washington Post. The book is “Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare”  by Stephen Budiansky Knopf,  $27.95, 306 pp.