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Displaying articles for: December 2010

January 3, 2011

Wine

From the encyclopedic to the personal, five books to help you uncork the mysteries of wine.

December 27, 2010

Resolutions

Inspirations and aspirations to greet the new year.

December 22, 2010

Winter

Snowflakes, icebergs, hardship, and imagination.

December 15, 2010

Christmas

From Scrooge's transformation to the physics of reindeer flight, a holiday sampler

December 8, 2010

Toy Stories

The plaything's the thing.

December 1, 2010

Sherlock Holmes

Essential reading for those who wish to follow The Great Detective on his investigations.

Daybook

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

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

The New York Review Abroad

This new collection of some of the best of overseas reportage includes articles from Joan Didion, Tim Judah and Susan Sontag, with topics ranging from impromptu theater in conflict-ridden Sarajevo to a gravediggers’ strike in Liverpool.

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.