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Some real-life figures walk straight into the history books. Sixteen years after he was freed from death row, Jay C. Smith has tried to write his way out of a true-crime best-seller.
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ZIEGFELD The Man Who Invented Show Business By Ethan Mordden St. Martin's. 335 pp. $32.95 "Flo liked his erotica neat and fulfilled, not coy and gibbering," Ethan Mordden writes close to the beginning of this engaging, often gnomic, information-packed biography of Florenz Ziegfeld. Further on,...(more)
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At the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Manil Suri is a professor of math. In either a testament to the work or a gesture of humility, he notes on his academic Web site, "This is the only job I've ever had." It's true only if...(more)
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BAGHDAD AT SUNRISE A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq By Peter R. Mansoor Yale University. 376 pp. $28 In early summer 2003, more than two decades into his Army career, the top-ranked officer from West Point's Class of 1982 went to war for the first...(more)
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Roberto Bolaño’s five-part posthumous magnum opus is grounded in the real chronicle of unsolved sex crimes in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with hundreds of women dead and the identities of their killers still unclear.
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PHARMAKON By Dirk Wittenborn Viking. 406 pp. $25.95 Reading Dirk Wittenborn's "Pharmakon," I thought of bees. Flying insects play no role in Wittenborn's novel, but the thing about bees is that, according to physics, their trifling wings shouldn't fly. There's no way those implausible little...(more)
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THE TYRANNY OF OIL The World's Most Powerful Industry -- and What We Must Do to Stop It By Antonia Juhasz Morrow. 468 pp. $26.95 Big Oil -- the half-dozen biggest publicly traded energy producers on Earth -- has spent more than a century ravaging...(more)
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ONCE WERE COPS By Ken Bruen St. Martin's Minotaur. 294 pp. $22.95 The prolific Irish novelist Ken Bruen's books are violent, vulgar, over the top, booze-soaked, dungeon-dark and -- if you're not put off by all that -- often hilarious. The first of his novels...(more)
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The critic John Leonard, who died Wednesday at 69, brought to his work a combination of open-mindedness and skepticism and the willingness to be enthralled and enraged, inflamed and entertained.
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Fred Kaplan never mentions Barack Obama by name in his new book, but its focus on the role that language and writing played in one president’s life promises to shed light on the role they may play in another’s.
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TEARS OF THE DESERT A Memoir of Survival in Darfur By Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis Ballantine/One World. 316 pp. $25 "Tears of the Desert" is that rarest of literary endeavors, not just a book you read but a book you experience. Halima Bashir's story...(more)
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WHAT CAN I DO WHEN EVERYTHING'S ON FIRE? By Antnio Lobo Antunes Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa Norton. 585 pp. Paperback, $19.95 From the beginning of his long, distinguished career, Antnio Lobo Antunes has been a pitiless chronicler of Portugal's colonialism in Brazil...(more)
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