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October 31, 2009

Mandarin Duck avec Sartre

October 31, 2009/ Ed McFadden

Exile, displacement, and polyglot discovery fill the verses of Fiona Sze-Lorrain; Edward McFadden journeys through Water the Moon.

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October 31, 2009/ Ed McFadden/
Literary Criticism
literary criticism, November 2009, Poetry
October 31, 2009

Damage Assessment

October 31, 2009/ Sam Sacks

Perennially underrated novelist Pete Dexter’s latest, Spooner, continues his fascination with damaged characters. Sam Sacks tours a body of work composed mostly of battered bodies.

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October 31, 2009/ Sam Sacks/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, November 2009, Sam Sacks
October 31, 2009

Hurricanes, Murders, and Music

October 31, 2009/ Ingrid Norton

Ned Sublette pens a loving portrait of New Orleans before Katrina struck. Ingrid Norton reviews The Year Before the Flood.

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October 31, 2009/ Ingrid Norton/
Politics & History
November 2009
October 31, 2009

Tomb It May Concern

October 31, 2009/ Ascanio Tedeschi

In a new work of Egyptology, bestselling author James Patterson claims he’s cracked the oldest murder case this side of Cain and Abel, but is Ascanio Tedeschi convinced?

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October 31, 2009/ Ascanio Tedeschi/
Politics & History
November 2009
October 31, 2009

Chaos, and a Stranger Arrives

October 31, 2009/ Kristin Brower Walker

Hairy slugs, warring souls, and sexy goblins – Young Adult Fiction is alive and well. Kristin Walker hunkers down with three recent thrillers.

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October 31, 2009/ Kristin Brower Walker/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, November 2009
October 31, 2009

Naught for the Naughty

October 31, 2009/ Karen Vanuska

In The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt tells the long and complicated story of a family’s secrets; Karen Vanuska sheds some light in the corners.

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October 31, 2009/ Karen Vanuska/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, November 2009
October 31, 2009

Seger Unsettled

October 31, 2009/ John G. Rodwan, Jr.

Midwest Rock icon Bob Seger’s former tour manager gives us a behind the scenes look at old time rock & roll; John G. Rodwan, Jr. turns the page.

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October 31, 2009/ John G. Rodwan, Jr./
Arts & Life
November 2009
October 31, 2009

The Word Made Full-Figured

October 31, 2009/ Brad Jones

Counter-culture icon R. Crumb has produced an illustrated version of the Book of Genesis—sincere tribute, or sacrilege? Brad Jones adjudicates.

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October 31, 2009/ Brad Jones/
Arts & Life
November 2009
October 31, 2009

Confessions of an Armchair Dictator

October 31, 2009/ Phillip A. Lobo

Tropico 3 tempts its players to become petty, manipulative tyrants; Phillip A. Lobo will permit you (unworthy though you are) of reading his musings on the game.

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October 31, 2009/ Phillip A. Lobo/
Arts & Life
November 2009
October 31, 2009

Surely I’m Convinced

October 31, 2009/ John Williams

a poem by John Williams

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October 31, 2009/ John Williams/
Poetry
November 2009, Poetry
October 31, 2009

Fun, with Zombies

October 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins

Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland straddles the divide between light family fare and flesh-eating mayhem; Deirdre Crimmins is naturally intrigued.

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October 31, 2009/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Monthly Cover
November 2009
October 31, 2009

The Fixer

October 31, 2009/ Steve Donoghue

Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novel Wolf Hall recently won the Man-Booker Prize. Each part of that sentence was guaranteed to attract Steve Donoghue’s attention.

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October 31, 2009/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Tudors, Features, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, November 2009, Steve Donoghue
October 31, 2009

Horace in the Afternoon

October 31, 2009/ Steve Donoghue

He was everybody’s friend, and his poetry breathes with life even today. He was Horace, and “A Year with the Romans” makes his acquaintance.

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October 31, 2009/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient rome, November 2009, Poetry, Steve Donoghue
October 31, 2009

Super-Semi-Quasi-Kinda-Sorta-Pseudo-Maybe-Dude-Whateveronomics

October 31, 2009/ Arthur Brock

The writers of Freakonomics are at it again, this time in super-sized form; Arthur Brock scrutinizes their findings.

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October 31, 2009/ Arthur Brock/
Politics & History
November 2009
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