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

Making a Scene
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Willa Cather’s correspondence

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Open Happiness
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No and the magic system of advertising

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Time’s Current
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The autumnal works of James Salter

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The Revolutionary
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Is Marx still relevant?

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Nothing Serious
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P. G. Wodehouse and the costs of innocence

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Rake’s Progress
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Adult animation grows up with Archer

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Red States
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The Soviet Attempt to Export Communism

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Madame and the Masters
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Blavatsky’s cosmic soap opera

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The Tines They Are A-changin’
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A history of table technology

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The Chameleon
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Thornton Wilder's multifaceted life and work

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A Tone Licked Clean
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Fairy tales and the roots of literature

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Man Underwater
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The democratic fiction of Richard Brautigan

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New Books
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Tom Wolfe is back with Back to Blood (Little, Brown and Company, $30) and I have to confess, after wading through this multiculti, multilingual, punnyfunny Miami miasma, that it’s difficult…

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Mental Weather
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The many voices of Zadie Smith

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The Humble Vernacular
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A word-of-mouth dictionary

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Death’s Triumph
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The medieval tales of Cronenberg and DeLillo

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Double Vision
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George Orwell

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Finger in the fuse
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Becoming Pauline Kael

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All over the map
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A revolution in cartography

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Boy genius
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The eternally youthful Nicholson Baker

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Reason for Living
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The good life without God

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J.B. him
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Joe Brainard's universal prose

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Unknowable girl
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Salvation for the mother of African-American literature

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Glory Days
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A pundit's rosy view of the Pax Americana

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A great consolation
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The postwar unmaking of Samuel Beckett

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The long goodbye
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James Ellroy tries to let go

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The purloined Borges
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Translation and traduction

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Mammonomania
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A reappraisal of Dutch Golden Age paintings

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Retouching the Void
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The WTC memorial

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The banality of avarice
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Why the finance industry never had to lie

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