As if to make his point for him, Prince Harry’s memoir searingly criticizing the royal family and English culture in general for stifling emotional expression was greeted by…Anglo-Saxons demanding that he stifle his emotions.
Single Drop of Blood
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Briss Broyard’s new book received breathless, yet inexplicable, hype. Aside from the seriously odd choices that newspapers and magazines choose to push hard–while ignoring infinitely more important books–the weird obsession over race and implicit endorsement of the hoary “single drop of blood” rule seems worthy of comment.