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Book Reviews
Writing On The Sly, Nathaniel Rich's Secret Debut
It took over five years for Nathaniel Rich to finish his first novel — maybe because he was writing The Mayor's Tongue secretly, first as a college student, and then while writing film criticism during the day.
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Three-Minute Fiction: And The Winner Is …
The clock on our Three-Minute Fiction contest is ticking. Stay tuned, and we'll reveal our latest winner on Sunday.
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Abraham Lincoln Reborn As A Vampire Slayer
Suppose that, in 19th-century America, the forces of good and evil battled for the soul of the new republic — what we now know as the Civil War. Author Seth Grahame-Smith explores that premise in a new book you can really sink your teeth into.
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Nonfiction Chronicle - Books by Alex Lemon, Daniel Menaker, C. S. Manegold and Malcolm Jones
Memoirs of surviving brain surgery and a difficult childhood, a primer on the art of conversation and a history of a northern slave estate.
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Book Review | 'Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy,' by Paula Butturini
A memoir of how cooking helped save the marriage of Paula Butturini and her husband, reporters traumatized by war.
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Book Review | 'The Harvard Psychedelic Club,' by Don Lattin
A group portrait of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil and their experiments with hallucinogens in the early 1960s.
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Book Review | 'Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History,' by David Aaronovitch
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Book Review | 'The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,' by Elif Batuman
An entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of a grad student’s improbable education in Russian language and literature.
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Essay: The Making of the President, Then and Now
The great campaign books of the past are about more than the back-room drama that dominates recent releases.
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Book Review | 'Blooms of Darkness,' by Aharon Appelfeld
In this novel with echoes of Anne Frank’s diary, a Jewish child is hidden in a brothel during the Holocaust.
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Letters: Dostoyevsky Suggests
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Letters: Borgesian Cartography
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Letters: ‘The Poker Bride’
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Letters: Sound and Fury
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TBR: Inside the List
The comedian Chelsea Handler beats out Karl Rove for the top spot on the hardcover nonfiction list with her new collection.
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Book Review | 'Occupied City,' by David Peace
A real-life mass poisoning in Tokyo in 1948, possibly linked to notorious wartime medical experiments, is the basis for this highly original crime novel.
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