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05/16/2008 08:23 PM
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The Ashes
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Joseph O?Neill?s ?Netherland? is the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we?ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.
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05/16/2008 05:29 PM
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Once Upon Many Times
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A novelist builds a bridge to the Arab soul, using the tradition of stories with a frame tale.
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05/17/2008 01:18 AM
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Profile in Courage
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Ted Sorensen, John Kennedy?s speechwriter and close aide, battled blindness to write a memoir.
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05/16/2008 03:25 PM
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The Long Shadow
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Ronald Reagan put an indelible stamp on his time.
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05/16/2008 11:44 AM
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Costs of Living
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Jeffrey Sachs explores economic solutions to the problems of overpopulation.
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05/16/2008 11:57 AM
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Jane Austen Meets Nancy Drew
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In this homage to ?Northanger Abbey,? a woman digs for family secrets at the home of her mystery-writer godmother.
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05/16/2008 05:38 PM
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That Stegner Fellow
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A biography of the writer who chronicled the American West.
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05/16/2008 06:27 PM
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Subdivided We Fall
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Bill Bishop and Robert C. Cushing see danger in America?s increasingly homogeneous communities.
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05/16/2008 12:51 PM
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Democracy, Limited
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Robert Kagan argues that in the 21st century, repressive governments are enjoying a resurgence.
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05/16/2008 01:21 PM
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?One or Two Murderers in Any Crowd?
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Charles Simic?s poems take on politics and moral themes.
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05/16/2008 11:47 PM
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Pen in One Hand, Cricket Bat in the Other
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The author Joseph O?Neill is a member of the Staten Island Cricket Club, and has just written a novel about the sport.
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05/16/2008 05:34 PM
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Art: A Man Who Loves Big Museums
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In Chicago, a passionate advocate of the international trade of antiquities.
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05/16/2008 02:05 AM
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Oakley Hall, 87, Novelist Attuned to the Old West, Is Dead
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Mr. Hall was the author of the novels ?Warlock? and ?The Downhill Racers? and a literary heir to fellow California writers like Wallace Stegner.
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05/16/2008 10:38 AM
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Domestic Lives: A 30,000-Volume Window on the World
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The author of ?The Library at Night? writes about finding a place to keep his library of some 30,000 books.
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05/14/2008 12:41 AM
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Stories to Explore Someone Else?s Skin
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?The Boat? is Nam Le?s first book, but it is already receiving the kind of praise usually reserved for far more accomplished writers.
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05/15/2008 11:07 PM
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Letter From Trinidad: An Island Scorned
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Asked about V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadians often mention not his books, but their belief that he has jilted the country.
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05/16/2008 10:15 AM
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Crime: Death in Venice
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In Donna Leon?s latest mystery, the body of a golden-haired Gypsy child is fished out of a canal. Also reviewed: new crime fiction from Duane Swierczynski, Stephen Anable and Elaine Viets.
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05/16/2008 05:55 PM
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Archive: Book Review Podcast
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This week: Joseph O?Neill, the author of ?Netherland?; Christine Muhlke on gray-market luxury goods; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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05/14/2008 10:43 PM
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Newly Released
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May?s list of new books comes weighted with accolades, from within publishing and without. Reviews of works by Inger Ash Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Chris Knopf, Stephenie Meyer, James Meek and Elizabeth George.
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05/16/2008 06:29 PM
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Sunday Serial | The Funny Pages: Mrs. Corbett?s Request
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Chapter 3: You can find out a lot about a recently dead man on the Internet if you are willing to put in some time, even if you are philosophically opposed to the ease of the endeavor.
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