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Mr. Wharton was a successful painter whose first novel, “Birdy,” won a National Book Award and became a critically acclaimed movie.
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AMERICAN RIFLE A Biography By Alexander Rose Delacorte. 495 pp. $30 The title of Alexander Rose's marvelous book says it all: Although "American Rifle" is ostensibly about the history of a piece of machinery, a tool, a killing instrument, it is only in America that...(more)
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WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS OURS By Porter Shreve Mariner. 280 pp. Paperback, $12.95 After the exhausting excess of the over-analyzed, over-spun, over-financed 2008 election, Porter Shreve's charming third novel provides a nostalgic return to the simpler, more innocent days of 1976. Remember when presidential...(more)
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TURKMENISCAM How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship By Ken Silverstein Random House. 197 pp. $24 It isn't easy being a lobbyist these days. Even though most people probably can't name a single lobbyist -- besides maybe the infamous Jack Abramoff --...(more)
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SECOND VIOLIN By John Lawton Atlantic Monthly. 419 pp. $24 This is the sixth installment of John Lawton's admirable series about Inspector Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, but it's the earliest story chronologically. Two other novels are set during World War II, and later ones...(more)
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In “Gone Tomorrow,” a sharply observed yet tender novel of academic life and its many sand traps, P. F. Kluge describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces.
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For nearly 40 years, Armand Mednick has controlled the story. He'd tell it over and over, three times a year, before vacations at Oak Lane Day School, where he teaches art.
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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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