Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/21/2008 07/21/2008
This week on the Web: Behind the scenes of Communist China and Ukraine democracy, Obi Wan on the road, a plague of deer ticks, a lost Las Vegas legend, a strong argument for the samaritan state and an even stronger argument for fat (with recipes). Plus: organizing, improvising, dog training, and What Happened—now with that smooth Scott McClellan delivery. More
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/14/2008 07/14/2008
This week: American dreams get analysis, archaeology shines a new light on the Dark Ages, a professional wrestler's murder-suicide, behind the scenes of the world's wine market, and a dazzling tour of historical Chinese art. And for the rockers: the Beatles in America and No Wave in New York.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008 07/07/2008
On the Web this week: the joy of repetition, the nitty-gritty of China, the story of a Guantanamo Bay translator, the life of a lesbian literary hero, and practical family eating for the eco-, community- and health-conscious. Plus: Monk in print, Finn in audio, counterterrorism in the 1980s and famous deciders deciding badly (from King Priam to G.W.Bush).
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/30/2008 06/30/2008
This week on the Web: death and what you can do about it, death and what a war zone reporter does about it, more speculative history from China enthusiast Gavin Menzies, an author's memoir of the tour supporting her last memoir, scientists examine the human-centric importance of all Earth's critters, and a classic of American photography turns fifty.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/23/2008 06/23/2008
This week: attack of the Chinese megacity, the stripping life in D.C., the Empiric States of America, a scottish football hooligan in suburbia's peewee soccer league, Alice Munro the mother, a fine new birding guide, and the pleasures of Richard Kern's sexy-creepy-contrived voyeurism. Plus: the latest of L.A. Banks's Vampire Huntress novels, E.E. Knight's new Vampire Earth book, and a standalone novel from Left Behind scribe Jerry B. Jenkins.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008 06/16/2008
This week's web roundup: the history of whaling; civil rights struggles in Sunflower, Mississippi; the other side of Chinese cooking; changing the world, one family at a time; and a charming collection of filthy phrases. Plus: subversive gardening, unhealthy eating, Dr. Dre's mom and Tennessee Ernie Ford's son.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008 06/09/2008
This week on the Web: the voices of undocumented America; how gardens and math explain the world; an idiot girl, a pastor's daughter and two unlikely Hollywood stars reveal all (to varying degrees); family recipes for including, not deceiving, your loved ones; and two new novels from Harry "When Does He Sleep?" Turtledove. Plus: the new Patricia Cornwell and a roundup of children's titles.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/2/2008 06/02/2008
This week on the Web: a modern adoption story, finding a good job, finding a good employee, inside the White House district attorney scandal, inside the Pentagon 9/11 rescue effort, art crit from a conceptual pioneer, cooking with beer, dressing with superheroes, and how to stay healthy with supplements and skepticism. Plus: knives, knives, knives!
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