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August 3, 2010

Skylark

There's no better way to celebrate New York Review Books Classic's entry into the eBook game than with Dezso Kosztolanyi's modern Hungarian classic, the story of an elderly couple and their spinster daughter that will teach you more about the poignant ironies of family love than a shelf of novels set closer to home.

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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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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