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Displaying articles for: January 2012

January 30, 2012

Adam Johnson

The author on books that help us understand North Korea today.

January 24, 2012

Richard Rhodes

Reading recommendations from a writer of infinite curiosity.

January 16, 2012

Lisa Hannigan

Great works of fiction and memoir from the singer's bookshelf.

January 16, 2012

Sally Bedell Smith

The author of Elizabeth the Queen on three books that turn deep research into dazzling stories.

January 9, 2012

Anita Desai

Chapters in a writer's life of reading.

January 2, 2012

Bonnie Nadzam

Three works on big questions from the novelist's bookshelf.

Daybook

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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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.