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The Romantic Nightmare in Alfred Döblin’s ‘Bright Magic’
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The Romantic Nightmare in Alfred Döblin’s ‘Bright Magic’

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 / 23 February 2017
The stories in this collection are circular, puzzling; they often end as cruelly as they do quietly, the characters and their journeys extinguished with poisonous calm.
The Glow Lives on in Taimak’s ‘The Last Dragon’
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The Glow Lives on in Taimak’s ‘The Last Dragon’

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 / 27 June 2016
The actor's memoir is a backtracking through a life under scrutiny and a life eventually left to chance.
Novella Carpenter’s ‘Gone Feral’ Departs Radically from Her Prior Books
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Novella Carpenter’s ‘Gone Feral’ Departs Radically from Her Prior Books

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 / 24 June 2014
Now a parent herself, Carpenter asks how her father, such a gifted man, became so ruined.
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Gay Talese’s Magazine Journalism, Mapped in Full Color

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 / 25 March 2013
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Maurice Sendak: A Fable-Maker for Our Times

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 / 11 May 2012
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Leonard Mlodinow Makes His Message Perfectly Clear

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 / 23 April 2012
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T.C. Boyle’s Notes Join Mailer’s and DeLillo’s

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 / 20 April 2012
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‘Charles Dickens: A Life’ Brings Dickens Down to Earth

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 / 26 January 2012
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Sui Generis on the Rocks: An Appreciation of Christopher Hitchens

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 / 16 December 2011
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Murder, She Wrote, and Deliciously Well

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 / 30 November 2011
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Decemberists’ Colin Meloy Tunes into Book World with ‘Wildwood’

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 / 9 September 2011
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Africa’s Crime Writers Are Coming to the Fore, Inspired by Violence

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 / 25 August 2011