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September 03, 2013

Frederik Pohl

September 03, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

Frederik Pohl

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science fiction, September 2013
September 02, 2013

Mick Herron on Chasing After Smiley

September 02, 2013/ Mick Herron

Mick Herron, author of the celebrated spy novel Dead Lions, opens up about the influence of the godfather of his genre, John le Carré

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September 02, 2013/ Mick Herron/
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September 2013
September 01, 2013

Book Review: Two Boys Kissing

September 01, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In bestselling author David Levithan's new novel, two boys try to set a world's record for the longest kiss - and their adventure is cheered on by the most unlikely chorus

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September 01, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, gay fiction, September 2013, young adult fiction
August 31, 2013

Joseph and his Brothers

August 31, 2013/ Sam Sacks

To many the scriptural story of Joseph is ancient and arcane. But its exploration into divine and authorial omniscience make it seem powerfully contemporary.

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August 31, 2013/ Sam Sacks/
Literary Criticism
bible, fiction, literary criticism, Sam Sacks, September 2013
August 31, 2013

Stalled on the Verge

August 31, 2013/ Eric Torgersen

The Modernist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker was Immortalized (and insulted) in Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend," yet who today knows her art? A new monograph returns it to the public eye.

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August 31, 2013/ Eric Torgersen/
Arts & Life
September 2013
August 31, 2013

Hot and Cold

August 31, 2013/ Victoria Olsen

Distance is complicated: it measures intimacy, but in unpredictable ways. Rebecca Solnit’s evocative new book explores the meaning of distance and closeness.

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August 31, 2013/ Victoria Olsen/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, September 2013, Victoria Olsen
August 31, 2013

Homo Sovieticus

August 31, 2013/ Evelina Mendelevich

The USSR's Book of Tasty and Healthy Food created an impression of bounty and gourmet splendor; Anya von Bremzen's memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking reveals the Soviet kitchen's homelier truths

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August 31, 2013/ Evelina Mendelevich/
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memoir, September 2013
August 31, 2013

September 2013 Issue

August 31, 2013/ John Cotter

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August 31, 2013/ John Cotter/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Monthly Cover
fiction, literary criticism, September 2013
August 31, 2013

The Empire Strikes Back

August 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

King and Woolman's new book Assassination of the Archduke, boasts new sources, very close to Franz Ferdinand and his wife -- too close?

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August 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
September 2013, Steve Donoghue
August 31, 2013

God, the Janitor, and the Psychic Hermaphrodites

August 31, 2013/ Steve Danziger

Henry Darger, icon of Outsider Art, created unnerving scenes of naked, tortured children. A new biography sets out to clear his name from would-be charges of pedophilia--but is it a reputation that really needs saving?

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August 31, 2013/ Steve Danziger/
Arts & Life
biography, September 2013
August 31, 2013

Reading Eric Blair

August 31, 2013/ G. Robert Ogilvy

Today George Orwell is a buzzword; what can his collected letters tell us about the man himself? G. Robert Ogilvy looks for the human being beneath the persona.

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August 31, 2013/ G. Robert Ogilvy/
Fiction, Arts & Life
fiction, September 2013
August 31, 2013

Music’s restless avant garde: Still a ‘wonderful adventure’

August 31, 2013/ Michael Johnson

Many composers and musicians believe we are in a golden age of experimental creativity in composition. So why does the general concert-going public hate the results?

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August 31, 2013/ Michael Johnson/
Arts & Life
Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, John Adams, John Cage, Michael Johnson, Mozart, music, Philip Glass, Schoenberg, September 2013
August 31, 2013

An Excerpt from YOU

August 31, 2013/ Joseph P. Wood

a poem

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August 31, 2013/ Joseph P. Wood/
Poetry
Poetry, September 2013
August 31, 2013

The Shape of Things to Come

August 31, 2013/ Phillip A. Lobo

All of European history - and beyond - plays out in new and fascinating variations of guns, germs, and steel in Paradox Interactive's new version of its popular video game Europa Universalis

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August 31, 2013/ Phillip A. Lobo/
Arts & Life
Napoleon, Phillip A- Lobo, September 2013, Video game review, video games
August 31, 2013

A Prose Piece for Your Gaps: Robert Walser's Short Works

August 31, 2013/ Y. Greyman

A newly translated selection of occasional prose by Robert Walser demonstrates the Swiss eccentric's range of manic humor and Romantic melancholy

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August 31, 2013/ Y. Greyman/
Fiction
fiction, September 2013
August 31, 2013

With Friends Like These ...

August 31, 2013/ Frances Richardson

What you don't know about bacteria can hurt you, and a new addition to the Oxford Very Short Introduction series aims to set that straight.

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August 31, 2013/ Frances Richardson/
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September 2013
August 31, 2013

A Year with Short Novels: Elizabeth Smart; Queen of Sheba

August 31, 2013/ Ingrid Norton

A wild fever-dream of a book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept careers between thrilling emotion and absurd histrionics.

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August 31, 2013/ Ingrid Norton/
Features
A Year with Short Novels, Book Review, fiction, Ingrid Norton, September 2013
August 31, 2013

From the Archives: The Bureaucrat Who Would be King

August 31, 2013/ Amelia Glaser

President, prime minister, or unnamed Tsar, Vladimir Putin is at once ubiquitous and unknowable; a new book examines the many facets of a new species of autocrat.

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August 31, 2013/ Amelia Glaser/
Politics & History
Amelia Glaser, September 2013
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