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  • NBCC Suggests Spring and Summer "Good Reads"
    by Craig Morgan Teicher - 05/05/2008
    The third installment of the National Book Critics Circle's "Good Reads" list includes new books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Honor Moore and Marie Howe. More
  • The Importance of Being God
    by Adam P. Knave - 05/05/2008
    Though writers are known for their egos, few have come out and literally declared themselves God. New Wave fantasist and poet Thomas M. Disch does just that in The Word of God or, Holy Writ Rewritten (Reviews, May 5). Why declare yourself God and why now? God is eternal and eternally relevant. One of the wonderful things about being God is you can say such nonsense and it's all true. More
  • The Spy Thriller Rules
    by Paul Goat Allen - 05/05/2008
    Central Europe provides the locale for Rules of Deception (p. 43), California novelist Christopher Reich's new spy novel. You were born in Tokyo and have lived in Switzerland. In what way do you think your experiences abroad have affected your writing? I've always loved the “buzz” away from home, a stranger in a foreign land. More
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    05/05/2008
    This week: trendspotting and bullsh*tting, novel- and biography-writing, napping and dieting, a personal tour of the Congo and a vision for democracy in Iran. Plus: an overweight narcissist sheds the pounds, a Kyoto girl trains to be a geisha, and three historians look at the sex-obsessed weekly newspapers of mid-19th century New York. More
  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008
    05/05/2008
    Picture Books Sergio Makes a Splash! Edel Rodriguez . Little, Brown , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-06616-7 Sergio the penguin isn't afraid of all water—just “the very deep kind.” But with the help of floaties, a snorkel, a life preserver, he discovers that taking the plunge isn't so bad after all. More
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    05/05/2008
    The Other Queen Philippa Gregory . Touchstone , $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4912-3 In her latest foray into the lives and minds of Elizabethan shakers and movers, Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) takes on Mary Queen of Scots during her 16-year house arrest. By the secret order of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Mary is held at the estate of George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife, Bess of ... More
  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/28/2008
    04/28/2008
    This week: a look back with Goldwater, midcentury ball players and Sitting Bull; a look inside Steve Jobs, the international food racket and poker's checkered past; economics for the rest of us, another memoir of the modern Midwest, an Olympian oarsman and a lesson in Assholery. Plus more! More
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