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Displaying articles for: February 2011

February 28, 2011

Sheri Holman

Three works that grapple with crises of the soul, and of society.

February 21, 2010

Azar Nafisi

The author of Reading Lolita in Tehran shares some uncommonly good reading.

February 15, 2011

Tom Franklin

Three works of 21st-century fiction that provoke, dazzle, and delight.

February 8, 2011

Frank Delaney

The Irish author on three books to return to again and again.

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

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.