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January 31, 2012

The Beginner's Guide to Hunting Deer for Food

The ancient art of deer-hunting gets a locavore makeover in this lucid DIY manual for bagging and butchering one's own venison. Self-taught stalker Jackson Landers covers not only the practical how-to aspects of the hunt but also deeper philosophies behind living off the land.

Daybook

May 24: Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Works was published on this day in 1951. Included in this omnibus edition were most of the pieces upon which her reputation now stands, putting her in a rank…

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In the Margin

Do you recall the tagline from the very first Superman movie? "You'll believe a man can fly!" Well, I'm tempted to craft such a hyperbolic assertion for China Miéville's…

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