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Displaying articles for: February 2010

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March 1, 2010

Lola Montès

Directed by MAX OPHÜLS
Reviewed by Chris Gisonny

A circus beauty's tale is the heart of a masterwork that has left an enduring mark on filmmakers around the world. Read more...

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February 19, 2010

Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks

By JOHN CURRAN
Reviewed by Sarah Weinman

A long-awaited peek into the working mind of a literary genre's most celebrated master. Read more...

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February 19, 2010

Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen

By JIMMY MCDONOUGH
Reviewed by Katherine A. Powers

An unforgettable voice soared above the troubled life of a "Domestic grief goddess." Read more...

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February 15, 2010

Psycho Too

By WILL SELF; Illustrated by RALPH STEADMAN
Reviewed by Peter Lewis

Will Self and Ralph Steadman go on another head(y) trip. Read more...

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February 10, 2010

Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books

By DANIEL ROSE
Reviewed by Daniel Menaker

"This advert may well be the Cadillac of all lonely hearts adverts…"

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February 12, 2010

The Routes of Man

By TED CONOVER
Reviewed by Tess Taylor

The award-winning author of Newjack looks at how roads all over the globe serve to bind together -- and divide -- those who use them.

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February 4, 2010

The Whale

By PHILIP HOARE
Reviewed by Richard Beck

A writer's obsession with the ocean's giants leads him into deep waters. Read more...

Daybook

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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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.