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The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said he is writing a book for children that would explore their relationships with fairy tales.
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THE SACRED BOOK OF THE WEREWOLF By Victor Pelevin Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield Viking. 335 pp. $25.95 Rough werewolf-on-werefox sex. Were-creature philosophy that doubles as satirical content. Plucky underage Russian prostitutes who are actually millennia-old supernatural beings. Nonstop references to iconic authors,...(more)
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George Hamilton’s memoir spills some beans and goes a long way toward explaining his flashy charm, but it also keeps a few secrets.
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CEREMONIAL VIOLENCE A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings By Jonathan Fast Overlook. 333 pp. $25.95 The most compelling aspects of Jonathan Fast's "Ceremonial Violence," billed as a "psychological explanation" of a handful of U.S. elementary or secondary school shootings, are not the author's psychological insights....(more)
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In his new book, Robert Baer paints a picture of Iran as a disciplined, strategic, monolithic “police state” and military power driven by imperial ambitions.
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The Edwardian row house in Swansea, Wales, where Dylan Thomas was born in 1914 has been restored and reopened to visitors.
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TRIGGER CITY By Sean Chercover Morrow. 295 pp. $23.95 Sean Chercover's "Trigger City" starts as a conventional thriller -- a private investigator digging into a routine murder case -- but soon broadens its focus to examine the ever-expanding power of secret government agencies. Chercover quotes...(more)
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An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. As originally conceived, today's sermon was to begin along these lines: A first novel is a fragile and vulnerable thing, to be treated with immense kindness because of...(more)
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DOCTOR OLAF VAN SCHULER'S BRAIN By Kirsten Menger-Anderson Algonquin. 290 pp. $22.95 This little book isn't for everyone, but I sure loved it. If, like me, you've thought from time to time that under our controlled demeanors, our learning and good manners, we're all about...(more)
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BUY-OLOGY Truth and Lies About Why We Buy By Martin Lindstrom Doubleday. 240 pp. $24.95 When the scientists of the future look back at the advances of recent years, they'll be most impressed by what we've learned about the brain. The incarnate soul has been...(more)
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