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As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and broRemember that night in the tent when you were five and really, really had to wee but were afraid to walk across the campground and your big... More >>
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Heather McElhatton isn't a morbidly obese concubine with a thing for primates. How's that for free will?Heather McElhatton Pretty Little Mistakes HarperCollins Heather McElhatton has made a lot of mistakes. There's something universally appealing... More >>
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You mean Richard Gere didn't bring Buddhism to America?!Lawrence Sutin All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West Little, Brown Nothing gets past Fluffy. The woman behind the... More >>
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Comic-strip artist Alison Bechdel draws a messy portrait of her secretive father and the house where he hidAlison Bechdel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Houghton Mifflin It would be nice to think that if we all kept careful records of our lives—an... More >>
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Finally, someone has the answer to the binds of modern parenting—a Honduran nannyCaitlin Flanagan To Hell with All That Little, Brown A few weeks back, my older son busted me watching Supernanny. He came in during a scene... More >>
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Gary Shteyngart Absurdistan Random House At 325 pounds, Misha Vainberg, the ironic, sad, and insatiably hungry protagonist of Gary Shteyngart's... More >>
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Etgar Keret The Nimrod Flip Out: Stories Farrar, Straus, and Giroux There are things one doesn't expect to hear from a girlfriend after she says... More >>
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What can go wrong with 80 acres, 20 cows, a bull, and a pickup?Nicole Lea Helget The Summer of Ordinary Ways Borealis Books Nicole Lea Helget grew up on a farm near Sleepy Eye, one of the great town... More >>
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Good Grief: Joan Didion tries to write about loss without losing itJoan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking Knopf In June, Joan Didion committed apostasy in the pages of The New York Review of Books. It's a... More >>
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Novelist Rick Moody Feels His Pain. Yours? Not So Much.The Diviners Rick Moody Little, Brown Step too close to The Diviners or make any sudden movements and the novel will erupt in a John Philip... More >>
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How W.S. Merwin found his own turf--and everyone else'sW.S. Merwin Summer Doorways Shoemaker & Hoard Poet W. S. Merwin takes the title of his latest memoir, Summer Doorways, literally:... More >>
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Bret Easton Ellis castigates and/or wallows in consumer Babylon
Lunar Park Brett Easton Ellis Alfred A. Knopf The pleasurable tension of a Bret Easton Ellis novel lies between what it seems to be (a... More >>
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Mia Couto The Last Flight of the Flamingo Serpent's Tail Norman Rush is a white man in Africa. J.M. Coetzee is too. Alexandra Fuller,... More >>
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Kristoffer A. Garin Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns that Built America's Cruise-Ship... More >>
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The myths go modern in 'Songs on Bronze'Nigel Spivey Songs on Bronze Farrar, Straus and Giroux Not everyone will look at a sentence such as "'Twere long to tell all that... More >>
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What makes an author want to be his own leading man?Salvador Plascencia The People of Paper McSweeney's The most memorable--and quite possibly the cheesiest--scene in the 1998 Jim Carrey... More >>
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Rana Dasgupta Tokyo Cancelled Black Cat The next time you fly, remember to look around the cabin and locate the best storyteller.... More >>
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Gilbert Sorrentino Lunar Follies Coffee House Press Big props go out to Gilbert Sorrentino, author of the new literary object Lunar... More >>
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A new book asks what murder has to do with making babiesIt is no coincidence that many of the best stories require that somebody put an end to somebody else--if possible, with extreme malice. Murder,... More >>
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Don Paterson searches for the "Opposite of an Epiphany"Don Paterson Landing Light Graywolf Press With drop-dead delivery, Don Paterson wonders, "What do you call the opposite of epiphany?"... More >>
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A former 'Playboy' model exposes Hef's silicone paradiseJill Ann Spaulding has her French-manicured paw on the pulse of the zeitgeist. She was playing Texas Hold 'Em poker at the professional level... More >>
From the Print Edition
An Iliad captures the classic tale
An Iliad opens with the quiet before the storm. It's clear something is up once you arrive on the ninth floor of the Guthrie Theater. The bay doors to the… More >>
A Streetcar Named Desire drives at the heart
Tennessee Williams's plays are rich concoctions that can easily go to your head like a liqueur — sweet, easy to drink in, and able to make you dizzy if you… More >>
Out of the Pan into the Fire
You can get a feel for how a show has gone by the debris left on stage at the end. What do we have following Out of the Pan into… More >>
Treasure Island is an adventure
Theatrical thrills come in many packages, and there is something particularly compelling when limited resources meet boundless imagination. With Live Action Set, Noah Bremer has crafted engaging theater mainly out… More >>
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