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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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NEW YORK (AP) -- Barack Obama's historic victory has given yet another boost to his million-selling books, "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."...
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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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THE GLASS OF TIME The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorst Narrated by Herself By Michael Cox Norton. 586 pp. $24.95 Esperanza Alice Gorst, called Alice, was orphaned as an infant but raised in comfort in Paris by her beloved guardian, Madame de l'Orme. Thanks...(more)
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Three sets of researchers recently concluded that professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students.
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"Ciao, John," came the voice from who knows where. A few months ago, it was still possible to meet Roberto Saviano in person, though even then there was no doubt that his safety was in jeopardy. He was already well known in Italy, though not much...(more)
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MADAME DE STAL The First Modern Woman By Francine du Plessix Gray Atlas & Co. 248 pp. $24 She was sturdy, she dressed eccentrically, she couldn't keep her mouth shut. She was sometimes called a talking machine. She was madly enthusiastic about sex: Some said...(more)
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