Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 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
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!
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008 04/21/2008
This week: a war correspondent's love story; the cost of misunderstanding Muqtada; Swiss banking behind the scenes; the madness of Zelda and Marilyn; and the new graduation gift-book to beat. Plus: leadership for ladies, marketing's magic bullets and a fittingly over-the-top Top Chef cookbook.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/14/2008 04/14/2008
This week: a triumverate of feminist-folk-rock pioneers, building a better sales tax, ancient Egypt and Soviet Russia, going green with consumerism, going consumerist with Christ, and a classy new overview of Pop Art. Plus: three smokin' new guides to grilling.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/7/2008 04/07/2008
This week: a strong start for April, with star-worthy efforts on war, weapons, fashion, parenting, Paris, Gustave Courbet and the Red Headed Stranger. Plus: American art in danger, breaking up is hard on dogs, how and why to purposely shrink your clothes, and more.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/31/2008 03/31/2008
This week: Poetry, poets, puppies and psychopathology; marginalized voices from Native America and the Civil Rights movement; dedicated craftsmen and flighty counter-dependents; and a dazzling debut novel with a "polyphonic narrative." Plus: how do you measure up against McCain, Clinton and Obama?
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008 03/24/2008
In this week's Web roundup: culinary tours domestic and international, an improv comedy legend and a comic up-and-comer, the economic realities of global energy crisis and the new world order it's engendered, memoirs from a librarian and a teen with OCD, and a powerful resource for parents facing the death of a child. Plus: an inviting look at Winslow Homer and a novelist's take on Mary, mother of Jesus.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/17/2008 03/17/2008
On the Web this week: Star-worthy tales from Darfur and the Middle East, violence in the Old West, non-violence in India, civil war in the sneaker industry, a personal take on Terri Schiavo and a new kind of AIDS narrative. Plus: psychotherapy for your stomach and another look at Our Bodies.
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