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November 30, 2015

Pen and Tell Her

November 30, 2015/ Rohan Maitzen

Elizabeth Gilbert wants you to be creative, without fear. Whatever brings you to life, whether it’s learning a dance, writing a song, or drawing on the wall, just do it! But what if you want to review her book?

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November 30, 2015/ Rohan Maitzen/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, November 2015, rohan maitzen
November 25, 2015

Book Review: In Winter's Kitchen

November 25, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A family from New Jersey moves to the wilds of Minnesota and learns a whole new way to think about food

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November 25, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 24, 2015

Book Review: Augustine

November 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A sumptuous new book traces the long and complicated path St. Augustine took to reach his famous "Confessions"

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November 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 19, 2015

Book Review: Battling the Gods

November 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The open, even evangelical atheism of the 21st century might be new, but as a sparkling-good new book demonstrates, atheism itself is as old as belief

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November 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 16, 2015

Book Review: Russell Kirk

November 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A big and colorful new biography of modern conservatism's larger-than-life ideological godfather

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November 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 14, 2015

Book Review: The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer

November 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A penetrating - and bitterly timely - book about the 2011 killing rampage of Anders Behring Breivik

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November 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 10, 2015

Book Review: The English and Their History

November 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A huge - and hugely enjoyable - new book details the long history of the English people

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November 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 09, 2015

Book Review: London Fog

November 09, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

For centuries, "pea-soup" fog was synonymous with the city of London; a lively new book tells its story.

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November 09, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 08, 2015

Book Review: Great Soul of Siberia

November 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A stirring account of one wild family of critically-endangered Siberian tigers

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November 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 06, 2015

Book Review: City on a Grid

November 06, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The in-depth story of how it came to be that the Bronx is up and the Battery's down - the grid system of Manhattan!

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November 06, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
November 02, 2015

Book Review: The Work of the Dead

November 02, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A fascinating new history details the changing job description of the dead-and-buried over the centuries

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November 02, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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November 2015
October 31, 2015

Friends on the Patio

October 31, 2015/ John Cotter

Essayist, critic, novelist, and public gadfly: Gore Vidal's long career took many forms and sprang from a life as dramatic as his work. Has that life finally found a biography to do it justice?

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October 31, 2015/ John Cotter/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, November 2015
October 31, 2015

Generals in Dark and Snow

October 31, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Late in 1944, the defeated Nazis staked everything on one last throw of the dice, a massive assault on the Allied forces in Belgium. Antony Beevor's latest book tells the famous story of the Battle of the Bulge.

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October 31, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
Book Review, November 2015, Steve Donoghue
October 31, 2015

Pilgrimages to Paris

October 31, 2015/ Victoria Olsen

What is the allure of famous cemeteries like Paris’s Père Lachaise? Perhaps the crowds – of graves, and of visitors – reassure us that even in death we won’t really be alone.

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October 31, 2015/ Victoria Olsen/
Arts & Life
November 2015, Victoria Olsen
October 31, 2015

Never Have Hands Been So Vital to a Creature

October 31, 2015/ Justin Hickey

In Zachary Thomas Dodson's visionary and inventive debut novel, a violent past and a dystopian future are woven together into a tale of families, legacies ... and bats. Justin Hickey reviews Bats of the Republic.

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October 31, 2015/ Justin Hickey/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Book Review, fiction, Justin Hickey, literary criticism, November 2015
October 31, 2015

red moon night

October 31, 2015/ Safia Elhillo

a poem

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October 31, 2015/ Safia Elhillo/
Poetry
November 2015, Poetry
October 31, 2015

Banksy’s World

October 31, 2015/ Jared Marcel Pollen

An insurgent graffiti artist becomes an art house favorite and recognized brand; Jared Pollen explores the many-layered ironies of Banksy's world.

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October 31, 2015/ Jared Marcel Pollen/
Arts & Life
fine art, November 2015
October 31, 2015

Insurrections of the Bland

October 31, 2015/ Jerry White

The New Republic once embodied a vibrant, eclectic liberalism. A new anthology inadvertently tells a depressing story about the decline of that vision.

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October 31, 2015/ Jerry White/
Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Book Review, fiction, jerry white, literary criticism, November 2015
October 31, 2015

The Broken Clock

October 31, 2015/ Greg Waldmann

Controversial former Vice President Dick Cheney and his journalist daughter Liz have written a book claiming that the exceptional nature of American power is being sullied and squandered by the current occupant of the White House. Greg Waldmann reviews Exceptional.

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October 31, 2015/ Greg Waldmann/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
Book Review, dick cheney, greg waldmann, November 2015
October 31, 2015

On the Infinite Nature of the Universe

October 31, 2015/ Tim Duffy

a poem

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October 31, 2015/ Tim Duffy/
Poetry
November 2015, Poetry
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