Displaying articles for: March 2012

Satantango

A Hungarian author's portrait of village life pulls no punches.

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Thomas Hart Benton

A biography of the artist whose work, "as rich and dynamic as it may be, is not as paradoxical as the man was."

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The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story

A story of life in a Russian prison camp, by turns comic and shockingly honest.

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Butterfly in the Typewriter

The short life of John Kennedy Toole, author of the classic A Confederacy of Dunces

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Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room

A critic takes a scene-by-scene journey through a masterpiece of cinema.

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

The chilling chronicle of an injustice in the Florida courts that became a turning point in the civil rights movement.

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Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

At the climax of the Cold War, misgivings simmered below the surface of the Anglo-American alliance.

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When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays

The author of Gilead and Home collects essays marked by the spirit of her Western upbringing.

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Carry the One

The aftermath of a tragic moment ripples out through years, and lives.

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

An epic that documents one of the twentieth century's greatest crimes, in a newly restored edition.

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Island of Vice

The Rough Rider versus the Rotten Apple.

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The Vanishers

Female psychics clash and destructive fury erupts.

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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

The story of the computer's creation.

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By Blood

The secrets of the consulting room travel through walls and breed a man's obsession with a stranger.

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Gods Without Men

A desert monolith is the strange attractor in a tale of myth and madness that hopscotches through time.

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Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

A case for how religious belief has shaped America's foreign policy.

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Barney Rosset, 1922-2012

The publisher of Grove transformed American literature with courage -- and savvy.

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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

A journalist unveils the hidden history of Russia's prime minister.

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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…

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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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.