Verlaine, Aswany, Khoury, McKillop, Fitzsimmons

Since my last post, I've read an issue of Eclectic Reading, an issue of The New Yorker, and an issue of The Economist. I've also read Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, , and I'm now part of the way through Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury, which is more didactic than I hoped, and the prose works of Verlaine. I gave up on Gate of the Sun when a footnote gave an politically motivated description of what happened at Deir Yasin, including a very high estimate of casualties. Verlaine I found sad in his autobiographical writings. I also read Death and the Classic Ancient Mayan Kings, by James Fitzsimmons. I picked up McKillop's Ancient Maya, but haven't begun yet.