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May 12, 2011

Evel

By LEIGH MONTVILLE
Reviewed by Peter Lewis

The high flights and disastrous crashes of the cycle-jumping daredevil.

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June 21, 2010

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky

By OLIVIER PHILIPPONNAT and PATRICK LIENHARDT
Reviewed by Jacob Silverman

The tumultuous, tragic life and death of the author of Suite Française.

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April 22, 2010

The Publisher

By ALAN BRINKLEY
Reviewed by Barbara Spindel

The creator of Time and Life yearned to stretch beyond words and images and shape the globe.

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April 9, 2010

David Foster Wallace: Becoming Himself

By Kathleen Fitzpatrick

A new book reproduces an extended encounter with an author who fascinated in his art, and his life.

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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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January 25, 2010

Churchill: A Life

By PAUL JOHNSON
Reviewed by Chuck Leddy

One of the most contradictory personalities of the 20th century turned out to be one of its most pivotal. Read more...

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.