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Profile in Courage (17 May 10:48) |
| Ted Sorensen, John Kennedy’s speechwriter and close aide, battled blindness to write a memoir.
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The Ashes (17 May 05:53) |
| Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland” is the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Cente... |
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White Terrorists (17 May 03:57) |
| Two new books recount how racists defrauded black voters in a Louisiana town in 1872, and then attacked and killed those who resisted.
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Subdivided We Fall (17 May 03:57) |
| Bill Bishop and Robert C. Cushing see danger in America’s increasingly homogeneous communities.
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Bag Man (17 May 03:18) |
| The memoir of an eBay seller on the trail of an elusive Hermès handbag.
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Battlefield Notes (17 May 03:13) |
| James Meek’s new novel is about a war reporter chasing a woman and a story.
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That Stegner Fellow (17 May 03:08) |
| A biography of the writer who chronicled the American West.
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Once Upon Many Times (17 May 02:59) |
| A novelist builds a bridge to the Arab soul, using the tradition of stories with a frame tale.
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Crash (17 May 01:18) |
| In this comic novel, a man blames himself for the car accident that paralyzed his wife.
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Parallel Misfortunes (17 May 01:10) |
| A novel traces the progress of women in doomed love triangles across the latter half of a casually enchanted 20th century.
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Locomotive in Petticoats (17 May 01:05) |
| She covered Victorian celebrities as a reporter and became one as an actress.
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Mommy’s Dearest (17 May 01:00) |
| Julie Klam’s doting mother wanted nothing more than to be her best friend.
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The Long Shadow (17 May 12:55) |
| Ronald Reagan put an indelible stamp on his time.
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Bitter Young Things (16 May 11:12) |
| Etgar Keret’s stories of Israel are punctuated with whimsy and violence.
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O Pioneer! (16 May 11:07) |
| Ida Wells-Barnett led the fight against lynching.
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‘One or Two Murderers in Any Crowd’ (16 May 10:51) |
| Charles Simic’s poems take on politics and moral themes.
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Democracy, Limited (16 May 10:21) |
| Robert Kagan argues that in the 21st century, repressive governments are enjoying a resurgence.
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Jane Austen Meets Nancy Drew (16 May 09:27) |
| In this homage to “Northanger Abbey,” a woman digs for family secrets at the home of her mystery-writer godmother.
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Costs of Living (16 May 09:14) |
| Jeffrey Sachs explores economic solutions to the problems of overpopulation.
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Dreams and Disaster (16 May 07:27) |
| These essays focus on the gap between hope and reality.
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Three Soldiers (10 May 06:24) |
| In a novel set in World War II, a sergeant commits murder in front of his unit.
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Rough Justice (10 May 02:46) |
| Louise Edrich’s new novel examines the lasting repercussions of a small-town lynching.
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Man in a Black Turban (10 May 02:08) |
| Patrick Cockburn’s life of the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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The Fog of Love (10 May 02:02) |
| Andrew Sean Greer’s novel is appropriately set in San Francisco’s Sunset district.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (10 May 01:56) |
| After learning of a possibly fatal mutation lurking in her genes, Masha Gessen went in search of answers medical and moral.
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Bring Us Apart (10 May 01:47) |
| Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book argues that Richard Nixon is the explanation for everything — or at least for the rise of the right and the decline of almost everything else.... |
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Essay: 1958: The War of the Intellectuals (10 May 12:48) |
| Fifty years ago, American critics worried about the collapsing distinction among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow.
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Time of Her Life (09 May 11:47) |
| A 75-year-old journal resurrects a girl and a city.
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The Mother Hood (09 May 11:39) |
| Meg Wolitzer’s novel is about New York women who have stayed home too long.
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On Poetry: Vendler’s Yeats (09 May 11:34) |
| Helen Vendler’s study of W. B. Yeats demonstrates the flaws that come from trying to ensure the Right Poets are read the Right Way.
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Styron’s Choices (09 May 11:33) |
| Essays by William Styron illuminate his fiction’s themes.
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Difficult Truths (09 May 11:27) |
| Honor Moore presents her father’s life and work, including his secrets.
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All the Difference (09 May 11:26) |
| A biographical novel reconstructs Robert Frost’s life.
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Letters: South Korea’s Postwar (09 May 07:20) |
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Letters: ‘The Second Plane’ (09 May 07:18) |
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Letters: This Is Your Brain on Evolution (09 May 07:15) |
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The New New World (09 May 09:17) |
| In this examination of power, Fareed Zakaria focuses not so much on the decline of America, but on the rise of China and India.
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I Had a Funny Farm in Africa (09 May 09:16) |
| The author’s childhood in Botswana was anything but conventional.
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Call of the Wild (03 May 11:07) |
| Jiang Rong’s novel is set in the pristine grasslands of Inner Mongolia in the 1960s. |
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Stray Thoughts (03 May 05:48) |
| A man’s search for his runaway dog frames the action in this Australian novel. |
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Yearning to Breathe Free (03 May 05:38) |
| A memoir of life in a suffocating family — and the author’s fight to break free. |
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Pen and Sickle (03 May 05:35) |
| A look at Russia’s major artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in the 20th century. |
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Kissing the Cook (03 May 05:29) |
| In Yan Lianke’s satirical novel, a fervent Maoist is seduced by the wife of his commanding officer. |
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Miss Shanghai (03 May 05:24) |
| Wang Anyi’s novel spans four decades in the life of a woman making her way in a rapidly changing China. |
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Making the Band (03 May 03:20) |
| This prehistory of Roxy Music focuses on British art, fashion and academia in the 1950s and ’60s. |
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Born Again (03 May 02:55) |
| The Chinese writer Mo Yan’s wildly visionary and creative new novel covers almost the entire span of his country’s revolutionary experience, from 1950 until 2000, while constantly mockin... |
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Empty Nest Egg (03 May 02:32) |
| Roger Lowenstein says America’s pension system is in shambles. |
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On Gossamer Wings (03 May 02:31) |
| A web of associations connects a group of New England writers, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
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Dharma Bum (03 May 02:31) |
| A memoir of a young Westerner’s adventures in Buddhism. |
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Don’t Know Much About History (03 May 01:28) |
| From the Vikings to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz searches for the true story behind the founding of America. |
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