Yes, I bid on Abe Lincoln's hair

Literary daybook, Dec. 5

"El Crimen del Padre Amaro"

No children allowed

Screenage wasteland?

Panicked in Rome

Ice, ice, baby

The day Henry Kissinger cried

"The Soldier's Return" by Melvyn Bragg

"The Seven Sisters" by Margaret Drabble

"A Whistling Woman" by A.S. Byatt

"Child of My Heart" by Alice McDermott

"All Is Vanity" by Christina Schwarz

"The Cave" by Jose Saramago

What to read in December

Washington's hottest whodunit

Blind man's brinksmanship

Falling arches

"Empire"

Star bore

Joe Conason's Journal

Do the wrong thing

Funny flesh