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How "the conflict" between work and motherhood looks when motherhood remains hypothetical.
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In Seth Greenland’s comic novel “The Angry Buddhist” a parade of colorful characters surrounds a congressional election in the California desert.
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The prolific author on the mystique of Tolstoy, his spat with Richard Evans and the limitations of the KindleAN Wilson – biographer, historian, novelist, columnist, provocateur – is the author of more than 40 books, including, most recently, Hitler: A Short Biography. His 1998 biography of...(more)
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After the Pulitzer Prize board said it would not award a winner in the fiction category for the first time in 35 years, there is hand-wringing in a besieged industry.
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A fisheries scientist explains different forms of overfishing, places where stocks are well managed and the difficulties involved in protecting species.
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Sadakat Kadri’s history of Islamic law tries to dispel the myths surrounding Shariah and discusses how fundamentalists appropriate it for their own purposes.
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For his book “Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,” the paleontologist Richard Fortey traveled the world to look at what Darwin called “living fossils.”
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Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who fled a North Korean forced-labor camp but not before turning in his mother and brother for executions.
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A novice when it comes to Chinese writing, Lindesay Irvine embarks on a journey into a strange new worldAs the minibus takes our party from Shanghai airport to the first of our hotels, it passes across a sizeable stretch of more or less dead earth. We...(more)
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Eyewitness accounts of Kristallnacht collected by an anti-Nazi heroThis riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews of the terrible night of 9 November 1938, when, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, bands of stormtroopers all...(more)
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"The Lawgiver," a new novel by Herman Wouk, the 96-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Caine Mutiny," will tell the story of a group of people filming a movie in modern times about Moses.
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The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey, The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler, Double Cross by Ben Macintyre and Kathleen Jamie's SightlinesAdmirers of Peter Carey's The Chemistry of Tears have narrowly outnumbered sceptics. This novel centred on a mechanical swan "isn't only about life and inventiveness:...(more)
