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| Essay: My Parrot, My Self | From Apsethos the Libyan to Perry Mason, the talking parrot has made its literary mark.
| | 10/11/2008 12:31:39 PM |
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| Big Country | Fifty states, 50 essays, from the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri, Anthony Doerr and Heidi Julavits.
| | 10/11/2008 12:24:11 PM |
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| Torch Song for Afghanistan | A Pakistani author portrays a complex political situation in a novel that contains both savagery and tenderness.
| | 10/11/2008 1:47:33 AM |
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| Twisted Sisters | Julia Glass’s new novel focuses on the complicated emotions — love, hate, envy, grief — that form between female siblings.
| | 10/10/2008 11:26:05 PM |
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| O, Brother | In Per Petterson’s novel, a woman remembers the bold, reckless, politically committed boy who taught her how to live.
| | 10/10/2008 11:19:27 PM |
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| Crucibles | The Inquisition, the Salem trials, the Red Scare: a survey of witch hunts over the past two millenniums.
| | 10/10/2008 8:26:00 PM |
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast | 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.
| | 10/10/2008 4:05:36 PM |
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| French Writer Wins Nobel Prize | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was praised by the Swedish Academy as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy.”
| | 10/10/2008 2:11:14 PM |
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| The Shadow President | Barton Gellman’s biography paints Dick Cheney as the master manipulator of the Bush administration.
| | 10/9/2008 6:08:28 PM |
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| I Is Another | Edmund White's capsule biography of Rimbaud, poetry's enfant terrible.
| | 10/9/2008 5:55:36 PM |
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| Out in the Cold | 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.
| | 10/9/2008 5:36:06 PM |
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| Suffering Suffragist | A novel about an admiral, his unfaithful wife and her activist friend.
| | 10/9/2008 2:54:06 AM |
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| Bookshelf | More children’s books reviewed.
| | 10/9/2008 2:53:52 AM |
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| Editor of Note, Perched Online | Tina Brown’s new Web site, The Daily Beast, is aiming to be a smaller, less chaotic version of the World Wide Web itself.
| | 10/8/2008 2:25:01 PM |
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| Charles Wright, Novelist, Dies at 76 | Mr. Wright wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent, then vanished into alcoholism and despair.
| | 10/8/2008 2:08:28 AM |
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| Rich Bank, Poor Bank | Why has Goldman Sachs survived as its peers crumble around it? In this corporate history, Charles D. Ellis credits its culture.
| | 10/8/2008 2:05:28 AM |
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| Foraging: Manhattan: Idlewild Books | The bookstore groups guidebooks and phrasebooks with literary fiction and memoirs -- books that, at first glance, might not be what the average traveler would think to pack in her suitcase.
| | 10/6/2008 10:37:31 AM |
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| Up Front | Germaine Greer’s most recent book, “Shakespeare’s Wife,” is the latest of 17.
| | 10/11/2008 3:55:26 PM |
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| Essay: My Parrot, My Self | From Apsethos the Libyan to Perry Mason, the talking parrot has made its literary mark.
| | 10/11/2008 12:31:39 PM |
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| TBR: Inside the List | 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.”
| | 10/11/2008 12:25:09 PM |
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| Big Country | Fifty states, 50 essays, from the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri, Anthony Doerr and Heidi Julavits.
| | 10/11/2008 12:24:11 PM |
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| Torch Song for Afghanistan | A Pakistani author portrays a complex political situation in a novel that contains both savagery and tenderness.
| | 10/11/2008 1:47:33 AM |
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| Differently Abled | A memoir from one of the great bass baritones of our age.
| | 10/11/2008 1:36:53 AM |
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| Despot Watch | Trying to salvage the idea of promoting democracy from what it has meant under George W. Bush.
| | 10/11/2008 1:28:03 AM |
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| Sniff Test | A “smell scientist and entrepreneur” examines the culture of olfaction.
| | 10/10/2008 11:28:59 PM |
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| Twisted Sisters | Julia Glass’s new novel focuses on the complicated emotions — love, hate, envy, grief — that form between female siblings.
| | 10/10/2008 11:26:05 PM |
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events | A country murder, a train crash, a missing mother: everything collides in Kate Atkinson’s latest Jackson Brodie mystery.
| | 10/10/2008 11:20:47 PM |
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| O, Brother | In Per Petterson’s novel, a woman remembers the bold, reckless, politically committed boy who taught her how to live.
| | 10/10/2008 11:19:27 PM |
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| Crucibles | The Inquisition, the Salem trials, the Red Scare: a survey of witch hunts over the past two millenniums.
| | 10/10/2008 8:26:00 PM |
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| They That Were Lost | The author’s father has devoted his life to preserving the vanished culture of the community where he grew up.
| | 10/10/2008 6:48:09 PM |
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| The Nanny | The Siamese king’s historical governess was far more than she seemed.
| | 10/10/2008 6:45:39 PM |
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast | 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.
| | 10/10/2008 4:05:36 PM |
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| Paperback Row | Paperback books of particular interest.
| | 10/10/2008 2:01:32 PM |
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| The Shadow President | Barton Gellman’s biography paints Dick Cheney as the master manipulator of the Bush administration.
| | 10/9/2008 6:08:28 PM |
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| I Is Another | Edmund White's capsule biography of Rimbaud, poetry's enfant terrible.
| | 10/9/2008 5:55:36 PM |
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| Out in the Cold | 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.
| | 10/9/2008 5:36:06 PM |
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| Suffering Suffragist | A novel about an admiral, his unfaithful wife and her activist friend.
| | 10/9/2008 2:54:06 AM |
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| Bookshelf | More children’s books reviewed.
| | 10/9/2008 2:53:52 AM |
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| Rich Bank, Poor Bank | Why has Goldman Sachs survived as its peers crumble around it? In this corporate history, Charles D. Ellis credits its culture.
| | 10/8/2008 2:05:28 AM |
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| By the Rivers of Georgia | A history of a Southern rice region, from the mirage of Sherman’s 40 acres to segregation.
| | 10/8/2008 2:04:55 AM |
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