After a century, Whitman's selected chat

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Politics as lifestyle accessory

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A new book about Alan Greenspan opts for access over insight

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A new history of all King James's men

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The pleasures and pitfalls of WASP reticence

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Publishing's future, seen from the inside

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Claiming France for the new homebodies

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Sacrificing Saul Bellow on the altar of one's own career

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Dennis Cooper, gay humorist?

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It's what ails you

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Tulips in the ages of exuberance

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Looking forward to a nineteenth-century utopia

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A new book doesn't prove what the CIA thinks it proves about the agency's performance at the end of the Cold War

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The strange, haunted world of W.G. Sebald

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Remembering Elijah Muhammad, true American

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Is our notion of the founding fathers' "characters" relevant material for history?

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A writer's work is resurrected

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Tim Hilton's new book on John Ruskin completes the two-volume biography of a Victorian giant

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Rebranding Britain with American quackery

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How Winston Churchill saved the world

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A new history argues that Kennedy might have pulled us out

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Walter Benjamin, the connoisseur of everyday life

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The mysterious narrative of marriage

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Happiness is a PBS documentary on New York

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On the triumph of American gastrosophy

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Remembering Graham Greene

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A walking tour of Lewis Mumford

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A Russian writer tries his hand at the Great American Novel

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