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| Books of The Times: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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In addition to fresh revelations about the W.M.D. megascandal, Ron Suskind offers a complex web of intersecting narratives that manage to show us, in this age of terror, “the true way of the world.”
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Category: Central Intelligence Agency |
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| Books of The Times: Behold the Kind-of Hero, in a Sort-of Civil War |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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“Man in the Dark” is the latest product of Paul Auster’s more than 20-year career as the most meta of American metafictional writers.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Books: A Doctor Transformed, Into a Patient |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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Dr. Thomas Graboys’ memoir of dealing with Parkinson’s disease stands out as a small wonder.
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Category: Parkinson's Disease |
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| Dave Freeman, Co-Author of Travel Book With a Deadline, Dies at 47 |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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Mr. Freeman was co-author of “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Findings: Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master? |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers.
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Category: Vinge, Vernor |
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| Britain’s Thatcher Has Dementia |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been suffering from dementia for at least the past eight years, according to a memoir published by her daughter.
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Category: Thatcher, Margaret H |
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| Books of The Times: A Texas Babe to Join the Brethren (Any Dissenting Opinions?) |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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An anomalously funny thing happened to Christopher Buckley on his way to the “Supreme Courtship”: nothing funny occurred to him.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Media Talk: What George Orwell Wrote, 70 Years Later to the Day |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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George Orwell’s copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made.
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Category: Blogs and Blogging (Internet) |
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| Laurence Urdang, Language Expert Who Edited Dictionaries, Dies at 81 |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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Mr. Urdang was a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books.
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Category: Dictionaries |
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| Arts, Briefly: Biden Book Is a Hit |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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“Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,” a memoir by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., has become a best-selling title.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Books of The Times: How a Jihadist Curtailed a President’s Authority |
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
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Jonathan Mahler chronicles Salim Hamdan’s journey from street urchin to jihadist, as well as the lives of the lawyers who transformed him into an international symbol in the war on terror.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Books of The Times: A Cynical Seer Unnerved by Her Own Inner Psychic |
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
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In Debra Ginsberg’s spooky new novel, a cynical fortuneteller discovers that she really is a psychic.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| War and Peace |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Kenneth M. Pollack advocates a generation-long commitment to promote reform in the Middle East, on a scale with America’s postwar involvement in Europe.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| English Lessons |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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An American journalist reports on her adventures navigating that exotic island nation: Britain.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Emily’s Tryst |
(Fri, 22 Aug 2008)
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Brenda Wineapple explores the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
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Category: Poetry and Poets |
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| My Dirty Laundrette |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Hanif Kureishi’s pallid new novel considers middle-age alienation and lust in immigrant London.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| The Art of Momoir |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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A year in the life of a mom -- the performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Return Ticket |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Paul Theroux retraces the journey that established his career.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Guiding Forces |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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How to steer people toward healthier, more prosperous lives, with a little help from the powers that be.
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Category: Nudge (Book) |
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| Piece This One Together |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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A novel from 1969 comes as a box of unbound sheaves, giving the reader a sense of the fragile experiences it contains.
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Category: Unfortunates, The (Book) |
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| Friends in Unfriendly Places |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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A foreign correspondent recounts the history of the Kurds.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| The Theory That Ate the World |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Stephen Hawking said when something falls into a black hole, all its information is lost. To one academic, that sounded like curtains for quantum mechanics.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| The Unmerry Widow |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Anne Roiphe describes her life after the death of her husband.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| Communism’s Nemesis |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Why did the Chinese authorities react so strongly against an exercise society?
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| A Long, Strange Trip |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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A British classics professor traces the lengthy shadow Homer’s “Odyssey” casts across Western culture.
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| Essay: Mailer’s Great American Meltdown |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Norman Mailer’s account of the 1968 conventions is a portrait of America, and Mailer, at a bad moment.
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| Crime: French Detective |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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New crime novels reviewed: “The Black Tower,” by Louis Bayard; “The Grift,” by Debra Ginsberg; “Fresh Kills,” by Bill Loehfelm; “The Fifth Floor,” by Michael Harvey; and “Good People,” by Marcus Sakey.
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| My Long War |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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What it’s been like reporting a conflict that never seems to end.
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Category: Iraq |
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| Newly Released |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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August is supposed to be the time for breezy beach reads. But a crop of books released this month suggests otherwise.
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast |
(Fri, 22 Aug 2008)
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This week: Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson; Paul Berman on Norman Mailer and the 1968 party conventions; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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| Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? |
(Sun, 27 Jul 2008)
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Is the Internet the enemy of reading, or has it created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount?
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Category: Reading and Writing Skills |
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