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[Commentary]

John Leonard

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Our friend John Leonard died yesterday. John’s first piece for Harper’s Magazine, a review of Renata Adler’s Speedboat and Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray, appeared in November 1976. He began writing New Books in January 2003.

We will miss him.

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November 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A mercy (Book); Biography; Grossman, David; Bishop, Elizabeth; French, Patrick; Lowell, Robert; Hamilton, Saskia; The world is what it is: the authorized biography of V.S. Naipaul (Book); Travisano, Thomas J.; Morrison, Toni; Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad); Words in air (Book); Writing in the dark (Book)

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79-80
October 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Blue genes (Book); Lukas, Christopher; Filkins, Dexter; Indignation (Book); Updike, John; Barnes, Julian; Letters of Ted Hughes (Book); Nothing to be frightened of (Book); Hughes, Ted; The forever war (Book)

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85-86
September 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A universal history of the destruction of books (Book); Exit music (Book); Báez, Fernando; Kureishi, Hanif; Rankin, Ian; Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul); Something to tell you (Book); Surrealism and the art of crime (Book)

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73-74
August 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Carr, David; Lebedoff, David; Waugh, Evelyn; Orwell, George; Bruno, Giordano; Giordano Bruno: philosopher/heretic (Book); Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake); Man in the dark (Book); Auster, Paul; The night of the gun (Book); The same man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in love and war (Book)

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81-82
July 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Beijing coma (Book); Biography; Castellanos Moya, Horacio; Thompson, Hunter S.; Oates, Joyce Carol; Jian, Ma; My sister, my love (Book); Outlaw journalist: the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson (Book); Senselessness (Book); McKeen, William

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81-82
June 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Thirlwell, Adam; Biography; Needham, Joseph; Rushdie, Salman; Winchester, Simon; The delighted states (Book); The enchantress of Florence (Book); The man who loved China (Book)

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79-80
May 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Kertész, Imre; Winterson, Jeanette; Appignanesi, Lisa; Mad, bad, and sad: women and the mind doctors (Book); Demetz, Peter; Prague in danger: the years of German occupation, 1939-45—memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war (Book); The pathseeker (Book); The stone gods (Book)

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89-90
April 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Weiss, Andrea; Hari, Daoud; Havanas in Camelot: personal essays (Book); In the shadow of the magic mountain: the Erika and Klaus Mann story (Book); Maps and legends: essays on reading and writing along the borderlands (Book); Chabon, Michael; The translator: a tribesman’s memoir of Darfur (Book); Styron, William

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83-84
March 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Kazin, Alfred; Alfred Kazin: a biography (Book); Biography; Leslie, Esther; Stape, J.H. (John Henry); Conrad, Joseph; Pictorial works; Cook, Richard M.; The several lives of Joseph Conrad (Book); Benjamin, Walter; Walter Benjamin (Book)

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81-82
February 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Schlink, Bernhard; Fanon (Book); Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo (Book); Homecoming (Book); Wideman, John Edgar; Kurnaz, Murat; Night train to Lisbon (Book); Mercier, Pascal; Banks, Russell; The reserve (Book)

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83-84
January 2008
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Manguel, Alberto; Pérez-Reverte, Arturo; Lewis, David Levering; Diary of a bad year (Book); God’s crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215 (Book); Homer’s the Iliad and the Odyssey: a biography (Book); Coetzee, J.M.; The painter of battles (Book)

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95-96
December 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A life of Picasso: the triumphant years, 1917-1932 (Book); Bamboo: essays and criticism (Book); Biography; Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Vendler, Helen Hennessy; Richardson, John; Our secret discipline: Yeats and lyric form (Book); Picasso, Pablo; Greeman, Richard; The unforgiving years (Book); Turning back the clock: hot wars and media populism (Book); Eco, Umberto; Serge, Victor; Yeats, W.B. (William Butler); Boyd, William

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81-82
November 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories, American; Wilson, Emily R.; Freeman, Judith; Høeg, Peter; Philosophy; Terkel, Studs; The Archer files (Book); The death of Socrates (Book); The long embrace: Raymond Chandler and the woman he loved (Book); The quiet girl (Book); Nolan, Tom; Touch and go: a memoir (Book)

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103-104
October 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Weitz, Eric D.; Goldman, Francisco; Wills, Garry; Robb, Graham; Head and heart: American Christianities (Book); The art of political murder: who killed the bishop? (Book); The discovery of France (Book); Weimar Germany: promise and tragedy (Book)

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85-86
September 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Broyard, Bliss; Berger, Brian; End games (Book); Fénéon, Félix; Sante, Luc; Berman, Marshall; Dibdin, Michael; New York calling: from blackout to Bloomberg (Book); Novels in three lines (Book); One drop: a true story of family, race, and secrets (Book)

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81-82
August 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Von Tunzelmann, Alex; Thubron, Colin; Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (Book); Lessing, Doris May; India after Gandhi: the history of the world’s largest democracy (Book); Indian summer (Book); Handke, Peter; Guha, Ramachandra; Shadow of the Silk Road (Book); The cleft (Book); The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Book); Dalrymple, William

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89-90
July 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Bangkok haunts (Book); Pettitt, Clare; Livingstone, David; Dr. Livingstone, I presume?: missionaries, journalists, explorers, and empire (Book); Grass, Günter; Burke, James Lee; Burdett, John; Smith, Martin Cruz; Peeling the onion (Book); Pictorial works; Stalin’s ghost (Book); The house that George built: with a little help from Irving, Cole, and a crew of about fifty (Book); The tin roof blowdown (Book); Sheed, Wilfrid

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81-82
June 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A crack in the earth: a journey up Israel’s Rift Valley (Book); Weizman, Eyal; Watzman, Haim; Hollow land: Israel’s architecture of occupation (Book); Israel-Arab conflicts; Cypel, Sylvain; Walled: Israeli society at an impasse (Book)

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87-88
May 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Kourouma, Ahmadou; Allah is not obliged (Book); Biography; Donne, John; John Donne: the reformed soul (Book); Stubbs, John; Englander, Nathan; Paretsky, Sara; The ministry of special cases (Book); Writing in an age of silence (Book)

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89-90
April 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A political education: coming of age in Paris and New York (Book); Alexis de Tocqueville: a life (Book); Schiffrin, André; Brogan, Hugh; Lerman, Leo; The grand surprise: the journals of Leo Lerman (Book)

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81-82
March 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Buda’s wagon: a brief history of the car bomb (Book); Childs, Craig Leland; House of rain: tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest (Book); Wilson, Jonathan; Chagall, Marc; Marc Chagall (Book); Davis, Mike; Poor people (Book); Vollmann, William T.

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85-86
February 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan; Alarcón, Daniel; Ghosts of Spain: travels through Spain and its secret past (Book); Tremlett, Giles; Infidel (Book); Lost city radio (Book); Mailer, Norman; The castle in the forest (Book)

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81-82
January 2007
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: About Alice (Book); Ehrenreich, Barbara; Trillin, Calvin; McCann, Colum; Dancing in the streets: a history of collective joy (Book); Room for doubt (Book); Lesser, Wendy; Zoli (Book)

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85-86
December 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Grayling, A.C.; Biography; Descartes: the life and times of a genius (Book); Davenport, Guy; Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: selected letters (Book); Homes and haunts—France—Arles; Laughlin, James; Gayford, Martin; Gauguin, Paul; Descartes, René; The book of Dave (Book); The yellow house: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and nine turbulent weeks in Arles (Book); Gogh, Vincent van; Bamberger, W.C.; Self, Will

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81-82
November 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Humboldt, Alexander von; Biography; Gauss, Carl Friedrich; Janeway, Carol Brown; Kehlmann, Daniel; Fiction; Vidal, Gore; Woolf, Leonard; Leonard Woolf: a biography (Book); Measuring the world (Book); Point to point navigation: a memoir, 1964 to 2006 (Book); Ford, Richard; The lay of the land (Book); Glendinning, Victoria

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79-80
October 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Frazier, Charles; Le Carré, John; Powers, Richard; Littell, Robert; The echo maker (Book); The mission song (Book); Thirteen moons (Book); Vicious circle (Book)

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85-86
September 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A woman in Jerusalem (Book); Yehoshua, Abraham B.; Back to Bologna (Book); Biography; Lazarus, Emma; Emma Lazarus (Book); Schor, Esther H.; I feel bad about my neck and other thoughts on being a woman (Book); Mao’s last revolution (Book); Pessl, Marisha; Dibdin, Michael; Schoenhals, Michael; Freudenberger, Nell; Ephron, Nora; Pictorial works; MacFarquhar, Roderick; Special topics in calamity physics (Book); The dissident (Book); Mao, Tse-tung

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83-84
August 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob); Humboldt, Alexander von; Wilentz, Amy; An episode in the life of a landscape painter (Book); Biography; Aira, César; I feel earthquakes more often than they happen: coming to California in the age of Schwarzenegger (Book); Rugendas, Johann Moritz; Pictorial works; The Humboldt current: nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism (Book)

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81-82
July 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Diop, Boubacar Boris; Guène, Faïza; Greeley, Horace; Horace Greeley: champion of American freedom (Book); Kiffe kiffe tomorrow (Book); Murambi, the book of bones (Book); Williams, Robert Chadwell; Greenfield, Robert; Timothy Leary; Timothy Leary: a biography (Book)

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85-86
June 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A woman of uncertain character (Book); Biography; Sigal, Clancy; Galeano, Eduardo H.; Let me finish (Book); Proust, Marcel; Proust at the Majestic: the last days of the author whose book changed Paris (Book); Davenport-Hines, R.P.T. (Richard Peter Treadwell); Angell, Roger; Voices of time: a life in stories (Book)

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79-80
May 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Spinoza, Benedictus de; Berlin childhood around 1900 (Book); Betraying Spinoza (Book); Everyman (Book); Roth, Philip; Portraits; Goldstein, Rebecca; Beckett, Samuel; Samuel Beckett: the Grove centenary edition (Book); Benjamin, Walter

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83-84
April 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna; Anna of all the Russias: the life of Anna Akhmatova (Book); Biography; Ugresic, Dubravka; White, Edmund; Feinstein, Elaine; My lives: an autobiography (Book); Pictorial works; The ministry of pain (Book)

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77-78
March 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A godly hero: the life of William Jennings Bryan (Book); An Irish history of civilization (Book); Jones, Ann; Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided Gilded Age America (Book); Akenson, Donald H.; Green, James R.; Kabul in winter: life without peace in Afghanistan (Book); Kazin, Michael; Pictorial works; Bryan, William Jennings

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83-84
February 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: At Canaan’s edge: America in the King years, 1965-68 (Book); Davis, Kathryn; Philip Freeman; Branch, Taylor; The philosopher and the Druids: a journey among the ancient Celts (Book); The thin place (Book)

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81-82
January 2006
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Death’s door: modern dying and the way we grieve (Book); DeLillo, Don; Khoury, Elias; Gate of the sun (Book); Didion, Joan; Atwood, Margaret Eleanor; Gilbert, Sandra M.; The tent (Book); The year of magical thinking (Book)

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85-86
December 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Martinson, Deborah; Christianson, Gale E.; Get a life (Book); Isaac Newton (Book); Hellman, Lillian; Lillian Hellman: a life with foxes and scoundrels (Book); Gordimer, Nadine; Pearson, Roger; Newton, Isaac, Sir; Voltaire; Voltaire almighty: a life in pursuit of freedom (Book)

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89-90
November 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; García Márquez, Gabriel; Babel’, I. (Isaak); Charyn, Jerome; Memories of my melancholy whores (Book); Fox, Paula; Savage shorthand: the life and death of Isaac Babel (Book); The coldest winter: a stringer in liberated Europe (Book)

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81-82
October 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A man without a country (Book); Biography; Kurt Vonnegut; Mark Twain (Book); Watkins, Mel; Powers, Ron; Clemens, Samuel Langhorne; Fetchit, Stepin; Stepin Fetchit: the life and times of Lincoln Perry (Book)

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79-80
September 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Bait and switch: the (futile) pursuit of the American dream (Book); Ehrenreich, Barbara; Doctorow, E.L.; Pinsky, Robert; The life of David (Book); The march (Book)

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81-82
August 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Here is where we meet (Book); De Madariaga, Isabel; Ivan the terrible (Book); Berger, John; Irving, John; McGhee, Robert; The last imaginary place: a human history of the Arctic world (Book); Until I find you (Book)

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85-86
July 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Blinding light (Book); Kostova, Elizabeth; Empires of the word: a language history of the world (Book); Schwartz, Lynn Sharon; Ostler, Nicholas; Theroux, Paul; Pictorial works; Se-Quo-Yah; The historian (Book); The mysterious flame of Queen Loana (Book); The writing on the wall (Book); Eco, Umberto

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81-82
June 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Ekirch, A. Roger; Rothstein, Arnold; At day’s close: night in times past (Book); Craveri, Benedetta; Biography; Mathews, Harry; King of the Jews (Book); My life in CIA: a chronicle of 1973 (Book); Tosches, Nick; The age of conversation (Book)

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85-86
May 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A matter of opinion (Book); Murray, Albert; Biography; Gordon, Lyndall; Wollstonecraft, Mary; The magic keys (Book); Navasky, Victor S.; Vindication: a life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Book)

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85-86
April 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Climate of fear: the quest for dignity in a dehumanized world (Book); Hemingway, Ernest; Evening in the palace of reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (Book); Sorrentino, Gilbert; Gaines, James R.; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Dos Passos, John; Frederick II, King of Prussia; Lunar follies (Book); Portraits; Koch, Stephen; The breaking point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the murder of José Robles (Book); Soyinka, Wole

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89-90
March 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Malraux, André; Schlink, Bernhard; Biography; Maslowska, Dorota; Lee, Hermione; In literature; Rabb, Jonathan; Malraux: a life (Book); Todd, Olivier; Pictorial works; Rosa: a novel (Book); Luxemburg, Rosa; Self’s punishment (Book); Snow White and Russian Red (Book); Virginia Woolf’s nose (Book)

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83-84
February 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Garff, Joakim; Fasman, Jon; Tatar, Maria; Short, Philip; Pictorial works; Pol Pot; Pol Pot: anatomy of a nightmare (Book); Søren Kierkegaard (Book); Secrets beyond the door: the story of Bluebeard and his wives (Book); The geographer’s library (Book)

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89-90
January 2005
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Wolf, Christa; Harlan, Elizabeth; Liszt, Franz; Sand, George; George Sand (Book); Historians in trouble (Book); In the flesh (Book); Wiener, Jon; Pictorial works

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87-88
December 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Gilead (Book); Parini, Jay; Robinson, Marilynne; Chabon, Michael; One matchless time: a life of William Faulkner (Book); Pictorial works; The final solution: a story of detection (Book); Faulkner, William

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83-84
November 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Updike, John; Smith, Martin Cruz; Sherry, Norman; Villages (Book); Wolves eat dogs (Book)

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91-92
October 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Book of the Sphinx (Book); Townsend, Camilla; Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma (Book); Koven, Seth; Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London (Book); Regier, Willis Goth

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85-86
September 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Feinstein, Adam; Biography; Kafka, Franz; Kafka (Book); Murray, Nicholas; Neruda, Pablo; Pablo Neruda: a passion for life (Book); Greenblatt, Stephen; Will in the world: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare (Book); Shakespeare, William

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75-76
August 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: An unfinished season (Book); Howard, Maureen; Pamuk, Orhan; Snow (Book); The silver screen (Book); Just, Ward S.

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83-84
July 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Circles and lines: the shape of life in early America (Book); Thomas, Hugh; Demos, John; Ross, John; Little Scarlet (Book); Murdered by capitalism: a memoir of 150 years of life and death on the American left (Book); Rivers of gold: the rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan (Book); Mosley, Walter

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85-86
June 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: American literature; Lycett, Andrew; Biography; Tóibín, Colm; Thomas, Dylan; Dylan Thomas: a new life (Book); Carrère, Emmanuel; James, Henry; I am alive and you are dead: a journey into the mind of Philip K. Dick (Book); In literature; Dick, Philip K.; The master; a novel (Book)

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85-86
May 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Seligman, Craig; Criticism and interpretation; Kudrova, I.V.; Stalin, Joseph; Tsvetaeva, Marina; Kael, Pauline; Pictorial works; Montefiore, Sebag; Sontag & Kael: opposites attract me (Book); Stalin: the court of the red tsar (Book); Sontag, Susan; The death of a poet: the last days of Marina Tsvetaeva (Book)

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85-86
April 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Sandbrook, Dominic; McCarthy, Eugene J.; Eugene McCarthy: the rise and fall of postwar American liberalism (Book); Genghis Khan; Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world (Book); Kabaservice, Geoffrey M.; Weatherford, J. McIver; Kingman Brewster; Pictorial works; The guardians: Kingman Brewster, his circle, and the rise of the liberal establishment (Book)

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85-86
March 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Avengers of the New World: the story of the Haitian Revolution (Book); Meyerson, Daniel; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Slater, Lauren; Dubois, Laurent; Opening Skinner’s box: great psychological experiments of the twentieth century (Book); Pictorial works; The linguist and the emperor: Napoleon and Champollion’s quest to decipher the Rosetta Stone (Book); Toussaint Louverture

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73-74
February 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A civilian occupation: the politics of Israeli architecture (Book); Guillermoprieto, Alma; Cid; Dancing with Cuba: a memoir of the revolution (Book); Weizman, Eyal; Pictorial works; Fletcher, R.A. (Richard A.); Segal, Rafi; The cross and the crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation (Book)

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75-76
January 2004
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Absolute friends (Book); After such knowledge: memory, history, and the legacy of the Holocaust (Book); American sucker (Book); Denby, David; Hoffman, Eva; Robb, Graham; Le Carré, John; Strangers: homosexual love in the 19th century (Book)

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87-88
December 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Gelb, Arthur; Backstory: inside the business of news (Book); City room (Book); García Márquez, Gabriel; Hess, John E.; Auletta, Ken; Living to tell the tale (Book); My times: a memoir of dissent (Book)

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77-78
November 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Seay, Elizabeth; Thomson, Ian; Love (Book); Levi, Primo; Primo Levi (Book); Searching for lost city: on the trail of America’s native languages (Book); Morrison, Toni

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75-76
October 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biocosm: the new scientific theory of evolution: intelligent life is the architect of the universe (Book); Sifton, Elisabeth; Hope dies last: keeping the faith in difficult times (Book); Gardner, James N.; Terkel, Studs; The serenity prayer: faith and politics in times of peace and war (Book)

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77-78
September 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A hundred little Hitlers: the death of a black man, the trial of a white racist, and the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in America (Book); Mayor, Adrienne; Garrels, Anne; Langer, Elinor; Greek fire, poison arrows & scorpion bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world (Book); Didion, Joan; Kingston, Maxine Hong; Naked in Baghdad (Book); The fifth book of peace (Book); Where I was from (Book)

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73-74
August 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Autobiography; Waugh, Evelyn; Lee, Jennifer; Marianne in chains: everyday life in the French heartland under the German occupation (Book); Manea, Norman; Paris in mind (Book); Pictorial works; Gildea, Robert; The hooligan’s return: a memoir (Book); Waugh abroad: collected travel writing (Book)

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81-82
July 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: A tragic honesty: the life and work of Richard Yates (Book); Bangkok 8 (Book); Franklin, Benjamin; Benjamin Franklin: an American life (Book); Biography; Bailey, Blake; Falk, Dean; Gallup, Gordon G.; Burdett, John; Keenan, Julian Paul; Pendergrast, Mark; Mirror mirror: a history of the human love affair with reflection (Book); Yates, Richard; The face in the mirror: the search for the origins of consciousness (Book); Isaacson, Walter

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71-72
June 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: American massacre: the tragedy of Mountain Meadows (Book); Biography; Johnson, Charles Richard; Darwin and the barnacle (Book); Spurling, Hilary; Stott, Rebecca; Denton, Sally; Orwell, Sonia; The girl from the Fiction Department: a portrait of Sonia Orwell (Book); Turning the wheel: essays on Buddhism and writing (Book)

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77-78
May 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Bay of souls (Book); West, Rebecca, Dame; Grossman, David; Death as a way of life: Israel ten years after Oslo (Book); Invented Eden: the elusive, disputed history of the Tasaday (Book); Stone, Robert; Hemley, Robin; Survivors in Mexico (Book)

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81-82
April 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Cosmopolis (Book); Crabwalk (Book); Dark star safari: overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Book); DeLillo, Don; Grass, Günter; Theroux, Paul

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75-76
March 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Chase, Alston; Bizot, François; Harvard and the unabomber: the education of an American terrorist (Book); Oe, Kenzaburo; On the natural history of destruction (Book); Somersault (Book); The gate (Book); Violence; Sebald, Winfried Georg

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February 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Biography; Muybridge, Eadweard; Kalfus, Ken; Pye, Michael; Photographers; Pictorial works; Solnit, Rebecca; River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west (Book); The commissariat of enlightenment (Book); The pieces from Berlin (Book)

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January 2003
New books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Another day at the front: dispatches from the race war (Book); Reed, Ishmael; Lost in America: a journey with my father (Book); Powers, Richard; Nuland, Sherwin B.; The time of our singing (Book)

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April 1977
Books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Falconer (Book); Cheever, John

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November 1976
Books/Review

By John Leonard

SEE ALSO: Gray, Francine du Plessix; Lovers and tyrants (Book); Adler, Renata; Speedboat (Book)

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