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Displaying articles for: January 2009

January 26, 2009

Allen St. John: The Billion Dollar Game

An email conversation with Mark J. Miller

Allen St. John discusses the strange business of sports' biggest spectacle. Read more...

January 12, 2009

Mark Bittman

An email conversation with James Mustich, Editor-in-Chief of the Barnes & Noble Review

The author of Food Matters on the reasons for embracing conscious eating. Read more...

January 05, 2009

Azar Nafisi: Things I've Been Silent About

A conversation with James Mustich

The critic and memoirist on the teaching power of fiction -- and the need for a bailout of the imagination. 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
The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia. 

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.