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Byline: LIESL SCHILLINGER editor: Valerie Steiker
What better way to study a foreign culture than to marry into it? In 1995, New York Times reporter Sarah Lyall wed a "fascinating domestic specimen" of the late-twentieth-century English male (the editor and writer Robert McCrum), moved to London, and began writing about the ways and miens of her adopted countrymen. The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British (W.W. Norton), her delectably merciless (yet affectionate) taxonomy of the British species, expands upon her dispatches, exploring such British fixations as hedgehogs, Page Three girls, and cricket. ...