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October 08, 2012

Comics: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut

October 08, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Vultures, black cats, and a gigantic, unbeatable foe: it's a week in the life of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!

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comics, graphic novels, john romita jr, marvel comics, October 2012, Roger Stern
October 08, 2012

Guest Movie Review: Frankenweenie

October 08, 2012/ John C. Anderson

Tim Burton's new movie has a surprising amount of heart and soul

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October 08, 2012/ John C. Anderson/
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guest movie review, john anderson, October 2012
October 06, 2012

Book Review: The Iliad

October 06, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Homer's Iliad gets a new and unconventional translation into sometimes very familiar language

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October 06, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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classics, homer, October 2012, Poetry
October 04, 2012

Now in Paperback: The Paperboy

October 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Pete Dexter's lean, harrowing novel of murder and ambition is coming to the big screen with a full complement of movie stars - and a new paperback edition of the book is a happy by-product.

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October 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, October 2012
October 02, 2012

CD of the Week - Glenn Gould: The Schwarzkopf Tapes

October 02, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht

The deeply unlikely pairing of pianist Glenn Gould and soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was deemed a flop when it took place in 1966--now some of the never-before-published recordings have come out, and they're well worth the wait.

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October 02, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht/
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October 2012
October 02, 2012

Guest Movie Review: The Master

October 02, 2012/ John C. Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, featuring a thinly-veiled take on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology

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October 02, 2012/ John C. Anderson/
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guest movie review, john anderson, October 2012
September 30, 2012

A Man Apart

September 30, 2012/ Greg Waldmann

Mitt Romney's diatribe at a Boca Raton fundraiser may have torpedoed his candidacy. Was he just pandering, or did he actually mean all of those things he said?

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September 30, 2012/ Greg Waldmann/
Politics & History
October 2012
September 30, 2012

First Person Singular

September 30, 2012/ John Cotter

Can a famously cold and impersonal writer like Paul Auster make a memoir of aging that works against his strengths? And are they strengths after all?

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September 30, 2012/ John Cotter/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Book Review, fiction, John Cotter, literary criticism, October 2012
September 30, 2012

Dignity, Conviction, and Mrs. Stollman’s Checkbook

September 30, 2012/ Steve Danziger

ESP-Disk', the cult record label from Bernard Stollman, was known for two things: extraordinary, eclectic recordings and horrendous business practices. A new oral history sheds light on the glorious mess.

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September 30, 2012/ Steve Danziger/
Arts & Life
October 2012, Steve Danziger
September 30, 2012

Songs of Experience

September 30, 2012/ Maureen Thorson

Sufi mystics, barbaric yawps, and the comedy of the sexes are what's inside Anthony Madrid's new collection of ghazals. What does our poetry editor make of this puzzling Persian pattern?

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September 30, 2012/ Maureen Thorson/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
literary criticism, maureen thorson, October 2012, Poetry, Poetry Review
September 30, 2012

A Hope in the Undead

September 30, 2012/ Justin Hickey

The Walking Dead, the hit TV series adapted from the zombie-apocalypse comics, offers fans a gripping and subversive take on the accidents of survival.

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September 30, 2012/ Justin Hickey/
Arts & Life
film, Justin Hickey, October 2012
September 30, 2012

As Dark Locks In: Nightfall

September 30, 2012/ Adam Golaski

CBC's landmark scare series is available online at last. Where did such a strange series come from and where has it been all this time?

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September 30, 2012/ Adam Golaski/
Arts & Life
Adam Golaski, October 2012, theater
September 30, 2012

Talking about Hats, and Maybe Goats

September 30, 2012/ Joe Betz

Emily Pettit turns nonsense into horse sense, or goat sense, in her new collection Goat in the Snow

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September 30, 2012/ Joe Betz/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
literary criticism, October 2012, Poetry, Poetry Review
September 30, 2012

Nine Ways of Looking at D'Annunzio

September 30, 2012/ Luciano Mangiafico

Madman, lothario, despot, drug fiend, friend and enemy of Mussolini - and immortal poet. Gabriele D'Annunzio was all of these things and many more in his whirlwind of a life.

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September 30, 2012/ Luciano Mangiafico/
Literary Criticism, Politics & History
fiction, literary criticism, Luciano Mangiafico, October 2012, Poetry
September 30, 2012

The Passage

September 30, 2012/ Kate Colby

a poem

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September 30, 2012/ Kate Colby/
Poetry
October 2012, Poetry
September 30, 2012

Leviathan Grimoire

September 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Their brains - their digits - their eyes - their locomotion - their families - their staggeringly long reign over the planet Earth: it's all here, and much, much more. The greatest dinosaur reference work just got even better.

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September 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
Book Review, October 2012, Steve Donoghue
September 30, 2012

Claiming the Future

September 30, 2012/ Daniel Green

Julio Cortázar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez brought Latin American fiction to the attention of the world. Now a young crop of writers are trying to move beyond magical realism--a new anthology charts the diverse approaches.

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September 30, 2012/ Daniel Green/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, Daniel Green, fiction, Fiction Review, literary criticism, October 2012
September 30, 2012

American Aristocracy: Gods Of Copley Square - Centerpiece 2

September 30, 2012/ Douglass Shand-Tucci

Henry Adams on the road to Chartres, Phillips Brooks on the Madonna of the prairie, and John La Farge on why he worried Trinity Church had "no heart" -- The Gods of Copley Square continues

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September 30, 2012/ Douglass Shand-Tucci/
Features, Politics & History
Douglass Shand-Tucci, October 2012
September 30, 2012

Change-gamer

September 30, 2012/ Phillip A. Lobo

Election-weary Americans might wonder why anybody in their right minds would elect to play a video-game presidential contest - but the process can be oddly enlightening.

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September 30, 2012/ Phillip A. Lobo/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
October 2012, Phillip A- Lobo, Video game review, video games
September 30, 2012

October 2012 Issue

September 30, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

from "Ink" by Katie Caron

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September 30, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly/
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October 2012
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