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Displaying articles for: October 2010

November 1, 2010

Jeff Kinney

Strong reading recommendations from the Wimpy Kid creator.

October 25, 2010

Amanda Hesser

The food columnist and author of the The Essential New York Times Cookbook on a trio of her favorite novels.

October 18, 2010

Richard Belzer

Detective Munch charges you to read these books.

October 11, 2010

Anthony Bourdain

The unconventional chef and author gives us a confidential list of his three favorite books.

October 4, 2010

Tim Gunn

Fashion guru Tim Gunn on books that never go out of style.

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.