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"Riddle of the Labyrinth" excerpt now online at Goodreads!

Read a tantalizing excerpt from my new narrative nonfiction book, "The Riddle of the Labyrinth," which Booklist, in a starred review, says "creates an atmosphere of almost nail-biting suspense":

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85

Mr. Phillips, associated with The Times for more than 20 years, wrote a 1965 expos� of a man in Queens who was a senior Ku Klux Klan official with an Orthodox Jewish background.

Robert Ward, Composed Prizewinning ‘Crucible’ Opera, Dies at 95

Mr. Ward’s best-known work, an operatic setting of “The Crucible,” won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962.

Carmine Infantino, Reviver of Batman and Flash, Dies at 87

Mr. Infantino, a creator of a spate of superheroes, rose from artist to editor to publisher of the comic-book titan DC Comics.

John J. Gumperz, 91, Scholar of Interaction

The conflict hinged on a single word: “gravy.” The place was Heathrow Airport, the time the mid-1970s. The airport had recently hired a group of Indian and Pakistani women to work in its employee cafeteria, and trouble had arisen between them and the British baggage handlers they served.

John J. Gumperz, Linguist of Cultural Interchange, Dies at 91

Professor Gumperz created a subfield, known as interactional sociolinguistics, that studies exchanges in a range of social situations, especially discourse across cultures.

Lawrence McKiver, Singer for McIntosh County Shouters, Dies at 97

Mr. McKiver helped found a Georgia group that practiced the traditional ring shout, a centuries-old black form of ecstatic worship.

Lawrence McKiver, a Singer in Long Tradition, Dies at 97

Mr. McKiver helped found a Georgia group that practiced the traditional ring shout, a centuries-old black form of ecstatic worship.

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Who Carried Word of Freedom to Buchenwald, Dies at 95

As an American Army chaplain, Rabbi Schacter entered the concentration camp an hour after its liberation in 1945 and told frightened inmates, “Peace be upon you, Jews, you are free!”

Rabbi Who Cried to the Jews of Buchenwald: ‘You Are Free’

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, as an American Army chaplain, entered the concentration camp an hour after its liberation in 1945 and told frightened inmates, “Peace be upon you, Jews, you are free!”