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Displaying articles for: October 2009

November 2, 2009

Bob Dylan

Highights from the never-ending tour of his back pages.

October 27, 2009

Ghost Stories

Classic tales of terror and eerie happenings from Edith Wharton, M. R. James, and others.

October 19, 2009

Chocolate

The bitter and the sweet of everyone’s favorite treat.

October 12, 2009

Explorers

From Columbus to Cabeza de Vaca and more, epic journeys of discovery.

October 5, 2009

The World Series

Classic books about the October Classic. Read more...

Daybook

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

Previously in Daybook

In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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The Long List

Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now

Hour of the Red God

In this searing African crime novel, former Maasai warrior Detective Mollel must defy a corrupt Nairobi government to solve the case of a murdered tribe woman.

The Wonder Bread Summer

This Tarantino-esque thriller finds shop girl Allie and a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine on the run from a vindictive hit man - after she discovers her dress shop is a front for a narcotics ring.

The Redeemer

Christmas caroling turns deadly in this new Scandinavian thriller, where detective Harry Hole must travel from Oslo to former Yugoslavia to track the perp of the holiday homicide.