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September 01, 2008
Reading Romance

Romancing the Future

By ELOISA JAMES

Eloisa James charts the stars of Futuristic Romance. Read more...

August 25, 2008
Reader's Diary

Reader's Diary

By BROOKE ALLEN

Fashion, greed, shopping, dog walking, and think-tankers. Read more...

August 18, 2008
Library Without Walls

Lives of the Artists

GIORGIO VASARI
by Michael Dirda

Giorgio Vasari's gossipy, glorious catalogue of personalities is one of the Renaissance's defining works.

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August 11, 2008
The Thinking Read

Ark of the Liberties

By TED WIDMER
Reviewed by A. C. Grayling

Can America still claim to be a leader in the cause of freedom? Read more...

August 04, 2008
Reading Romance

Some Like It Scots

By ELOISA JAMES

Is it all about the kilt? Read more...

July 28, 2008
Reader's Diary

Reader's Diary: July 2008

By BROOKE ALLEN

Brooke Allen on Charles Strouse?s Broadway memories, and more. Read more...

July 21, 2008
The Thinking Read

Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By ARTHUR HERMAN
Reviewed by A. C. Grayling

A look at two of the most influential progeny of Britain?s imperial culture, and how they shaped a century. Read more...

July 07, 2008
Reading Romance

Lions and Tigers and...Heroes? Oh My!

By ELOISA JAMES
A monthly column about passionate reading.

Eloisa James on romantic fantasies with teeth -- and claws. Read more...

July 03, 2008
The Thinking Read

The Return of History and the End of Dreams

By ROBERT KAGAN
Reviewed by A. C. Grayling

An analysis of the global power struggles to come. Read more...

June 25, 2008
The Thinking Read

The Man Who Loved China

By SIMON WINCHESTER
Reviewed by A. C. Grayling

A life of the man who unveiled a great culture?s learning to the West. Read more...

June 23, 2008
Reader's Diary

Reader's Diary: First Impressions

By BROOKE ALLEN

This month, Brooke Allen looks at debut novels and historic introductions. Read more...

June 02, 2008
The Speculator

Ballard's Legacy

Essay by PAUL DI FILIPPO

The titanic influence -- and critical neglect -- of the iconoclastic writer J.G. Ballard, who died on April 19. Read more...

May 26, 2008
Reader's Diary

Reader?s Diary

By BROOKE ALLEN
Reviewed by Brooke Allen

Brooke Allen looks at kid-lit gatekeepers and more. Read more...

May 19, 2008
Reading Romance

Kisses and Killers

By ELOISA JAMES
Reviewed by Eloisa James

This month, Eloisa James explores the unstable chemistry between crime and passion. Read more...

April 28, 2008
Library Without Walls

The Life of Henry Brulard

By STENDHAL
By Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda on Stendhal's memoir of his childhood -- unpublishable in the author?s lifetime. Read more...

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Daybook

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.

When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.