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Displaying articles for: June 2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Poems new and old consider manhood, travel, and America itself. Read more...
Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Peter Ackroyd?s brief life brings depth to an icon of science most of us know only glancingly. Read more...
The Delighted States
A wild chase in pursuit of the nature of the novel, across centuries and continents. Read more...
Original Sin: A Cultural History
The complicated history behind the idea that we?re born bad. Read more...
The Gift of Rain
A graceful martial art and a monstrous betrayal are at the heart of this atmospheric novel. Read more...
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
How a con man with a paintbrush pulled one over on the art world ?- and the Nazis. Read more...
The Mayor's Tongue
In an audacious debut, intertwining tales follow a transatlantic course. Read more...
Dark Age Detection: Historical Mysteries, Part Two
Sarah Weinman dives back into the pages of historical mysteries, in search of court conspiracies, nefarious knights, and murderous monasteries. Read more...
Little Brother
The blogger and creator of Boing Boing delivers a sprightly dystopia set in a fearful USA. Read more...
The Bishop?s Daughter
A daughter?s portrayal of her clergyman father?s inner struggle takes in the tumult
of an era.
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
An intrepid traveler follows a century?s worth of neglected American discoverers. Read more...
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
How a defense industry think tank became the nexus of the ?military-industrial complex.? Read more...
The White Tiger
Our review of the just-announced Man Booker Prize winner -- first run on June 16, 2008. Read more...
Northern Land: The Novels of Sarah Hall
Ed Champion on the seductive prose of Sarah Hall, the author of Haweswater and The Electric Michaelangelo. Read more...
Devil May Care
Martinis and all, Agent 007 is resurrected by the author of Charlotte Gray. Read more...
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Mapping the next generation of organized crime as a global, decentralized enterprise. Read more...
Love and the Incredibly Old Man
The discovery of the Fountain of Youth is part of the backdrop in Lee Siegel's tall tale. Read more...
Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?
An argument that the author of Paradise Lost remains a critical voice today. Read more...
Letters from Exile: Styron's Havanas in Camelot
Sheri Holman examines the divided soul in William Styron's posthumously colllected essays. Read more...
The Enchantress of Florence
The author of Midnight's Children offers an imaginary encounter between the Florence of the Medicis and the Mughal court. Read more...
The Film Club
A film critic father tries his own version of homeschooling. Read more...
The Craftsman
The link between the work
of the hand and the mind, reconsidered.
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The God of War
In a landscape transformed by human folly, a perilous coming-of-age. Read more...
Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
The unnatural history of a natural wonder. Read more...
City of Thieves
A story of the siege of Leningrad, a dozen eggs, and a quest for survival itself. Read more...
“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of the oldest clichés around, but what if it’s all about how you use it? Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton give compelling advice on how to get the most pleasure out of your piggy bank.
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.
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.
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