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CULTURAL STUDIES

January 16, 2012

Feng Shui: Secrets of Chinese Geomancy

By RICHARD CREIGHTMORE

Reviewed by Peter Lewis

Finding the most auspicious way to live within a place.

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CULTURAL STUDIES

November 22, 2011

Bird on Fire

By ANDREW ROSS

Reviewed by Barbara Spindel

A study of urban sustainability in Phoenix finds troubling realities.

Daybook

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

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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

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Big Brother

This emotionally taut novel of family dynamics and the limits of sacrifice presents a woman on the verge of giving up everything -- including her marriage -- to help her impassive brother fight his obesity.

Note to Self

A newly fired 20-something becomes an assistant to a filmmaker chronicling people’s failed ambitions in Alina Simone's sharp meditation on internet addiction, celebrity worship, and digital narcissism.

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.