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Insight on the latest books, films, theater, and music.

Stalking Back

Joshua Ferris’s half-baked novel of ideas

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A Study in Sherlock

How the detective escaped his creator

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New Books

Last fall, the Man Booker Prize, the premier award for fiction in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, announced that it was coming to America. Presumably Edward St. Aubyn had already…

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Consume, Screw, Kill

The origins of today’s mass extinction

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The Vampire

The fickle career of Carl Van Vechten

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Kennan Kvetches

Discussed in this essay: The Kennan Diaries, by George F. Kennan, edited by Frank Costigliola. W. W. Norton. 688 pages. $39.95. Pity the man’s poor wife. To peruse this generous selection from…

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Here There Is No Why

The trial of 12 Years a Slave

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Mostpeople’s Poet

Is E. E. Cummings a serious writer?

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The Almighty Dollar

America’s self-help gospel

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Memory’s Passages

The limits of autobiography

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The American Id

Robert Stone returns home

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Flights of Fancy

A history of ballooning

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Does Mailer Matter?

The Young Writer and the last literary celebrity

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Bewitched

A theory of glamour

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The Mercenary Position

Can Amazon change its predatory ways?

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New Books

Ezra Pound’s dictum “Make It New” has long been cited as modernism’s driving objective. Yet Pound, in coining the phrase, was actually drawing on his own (rather free) translation of…

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At Death’s Door

The hope and hokum of immortality

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Winds of Revolt

The poetry of Middle Eastern uprising

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The Blazing Facts

Filming Uganda’s homophobic fits

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Bartleby on the Prairie

The unspent life of J. F. Powers

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Numerical Madness

Critiques of a life online

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The Commitments

Love and marriage at the movies

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Animal Instincts

Jane Campion’s moral wilderness

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Talking the Walk

A stroll through our cities

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Root and Branch

Andrew Solomon’s exploration of difference

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