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Displaying articles for: April 2009
Sag Harbor
A beachfront coming-of-age in the '80s, from the author of The Intuitionist. Read more...
The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight
Gourmets face off against geese (and their protectors) in an increasingly heated cultural showdown. Read more...
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
A reporter?s career in the Middle East yields insights that don?t always make the front page. Read more...
Nobody Move
A gambler pushes his luck in a freshly hard-boiled tale. Read more...
Impossible Man
How the seeming paradox of "Muslim punk" grew out of the even more complex dreams of an American teenager. Read more...
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
The life of an internationally celebrated poet whose voice embodies "inscrutable simplicity." Read more...
Flying
Youthful flights of fancy take wing on a colossal tall tale -- and return comically to earth -- in this exuberant novel. Read more...
The Philosopher and the Wolf
A memoir of an unlikely human-animal partnership, and a meditation on life through lupine eyes. Read more...
The Long Fall
The creator of Easy Rawlins introduces a detective for the 21st century. Read more...
Whenever I Am About to Publish a Book
Our newest -- and oldest -- contributor on the enduring perils of publishing. Read more...
On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again
A literary and personal meditation on the power of changes in scene. Read more...
Lowboy
A young man sets out on a subterranean voyage, hoping to save an overheated planet. Read more...
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
A trial more than half a century old remains the stage for a hard-fought political struggle. Read more...
The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them
An advice columnist?s bracing memoir of raising her daughter -- and herself -- in Freeville, NY. Read more...
Don't Cry
Life stripped bare by a harsh and forbidding eye. Read more...
An Oresteia
An experiment in antiquity rediscovers the fates of Agamemnon, Elektra, and Orestes. Read more...
Castle
An ex-soldier returns to his hometown to discover anomalies in the land -- and in his own memories. Read more...
The Impostor
Under the guise of a nation's rebirth, old crimes and fresh corruptions. Read more...
When Skateboards Will Be Free
The child of would-be revolutionaries on growing up as a socialist in America. Read more...
Philip Jos� Farmer: A River Ran Through Him
Exploring the perpetually overflowing imagination of the late Philip José Farmer. Read more...
The Lost City of Z
An Amazonian Shangri-la and the hapless adventurers who sought its secrets. Read more...
Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
A visionary portrait of lives on the rocks, glimpsed from behind the bar. Read more...
Humbug
A new collection celebrates the improbable magazine created by a quintet of Mad geniuses. Read more...
In this searing African crime novel, former Maasai warrior Detective Mollel must defy a corrupt Nairobi government to solve the case of a murdered tribe woman.
This Tarantino-esque thriller finds shop girl Allie and a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine on the run from a vindictive hit man - after she discovers her dress shop is a front for a narcotics ring.
Christmas caroling turns deadly in this new Scandinavian thriller, where detective Harry Hole must travel from Oslo to former Yugoslavia to track the perp of the holiday homicide.
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