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| Out in the Cold |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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In John le Carré’s latest novel, a young fugitive, half Chechen, half Russian, shows up in the German port city of Hamburg in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Category: Le Carre, John |
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| Crucibles |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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The Inquisition, the Salem trials, the Red Scare: a survey of witch hunts over the past two millenniums.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Twisted Sisters |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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Julia Glass’s new novel focuses on the complicated emotions — love, hate, envy, grief — that form between female siblings.
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Category: Glass, Julia |
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| I Is Another |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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Edmund White's capsule biography of Rimbaud, poetry's enfant terrible.
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Category: Rimbaud, Arthur |
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| Suffering Suffragist |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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A novel about an admiral, his unfaithful wife and her activist friend.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| The Shadow President |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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Barton Gellman’s biography paints Dick Cheney as the master manipulator of the Bush administration.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Big Country |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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Fifty states, 50 essays, from the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri, Anthony Doerr and Heidi Julavits.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| O, Brother |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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In Per Petterson’s novel, a woman remembers the bold, reckless, politically committed boy who taught her how to live.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Rich Bank, Poor Bank |
(Wed, 08 Oct 2008)
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Why has Goldman Sachs survived as its peers crumble around it? In this corporate history, Charles D. Ellis credits its culture.
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Category: Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated|GS|NYSE |
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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A country murder, a train crash, a missing mother: everything collides in Kate Atkinson’s latest Jackson Brodie mystery.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Torch Song for Afghanistan |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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A Pakistani author portrays a complex political situation in a novel that contains both savagery and tenderness.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Despot Watch |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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Trying to salvage the idea of promoting democracy from what it has meant under George W. Bush.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| They That Were Lost |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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The author’s father has devoted his life to preserving the vanished culture of the community where he grew up.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| The Nanny |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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The Siamese king’s historical governess was far more than she seemed.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Differently Abled |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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A memoir from one of the great bass baritones of our age.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| By the Rivers of Georgia |
(Wed, 08 Oct 2008)
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A history of a Southern rice region, from the mirage of Sherman’s 40 acres to segregation.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Sniff Test |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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A “smell scientist and entrepreneur” examines the culture of olfaction.
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| Children's Books: Picture-Book Politics |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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Campaign biographies for kids are a sunny, upbeat lot, unlike the grown-up versions.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Children’s Books: Death by Squirt Gun |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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This parody of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett is a young adult version of a rain-soaked noir.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Children’s Books: Monster Management |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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Two new picture books, one trick and one treat, cut children's primal fears down to size.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Bookshelf |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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More children’s books reviewed.
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| Essay: My Parrot, My Self |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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From Apsethos the Libyan to Perry Mason, the talking parrot has made its literary mark.
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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This Week: Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey lead a tour of all 50 states; Motoko Rich with news on the book world; Bruce Handy on campaign biographies for kids; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Up Front |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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Germaine Greer’s most recent book, “Shakespeare’s Wife,” is the latest of 17.
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Category: Greer, Germaine |
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| TBR: Inside the List |
(Sat, 11 Oct 2008)
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Fifty years ago this week, Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” was the No. 1 book on the New York Times fiction list. The daily Times called it “dull, dull, dull.”
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| Browsing Books: Editors’ Choice |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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| Paperback Row |
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
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Paperback books of particular interest.
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| Letters: Pain and Suffering |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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To the Editor:.
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| Letters: The War Without |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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| Letters: Save the Middle Class |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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| Letters: Hitler and Palestine |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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| Letters: Break on Through |
(Thu, 09 Oct 2008)
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