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Also of interest ... in remarkable reprints
feature Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada; The Hour by Bernard DeVoto; Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford; The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
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Also of interest ... in new memoirs
feature Lay the Favorite by Beth Raymer; Wide Awake by Patricia Morrisroe; Never Tell Our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia; Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
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Author of the week: Elizabeth Gilbert
feature Gilbert struck a chord with Eat, Pray, Love, and she thinks the sneers of people who dismiss it are aimed not at her book but at its fans.
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Author of the week: Sarah Silverman
feature Silverman’s new memoir, The Bedwetter, is an “odd, shambling, and funny” work.
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Also of interest ... in American portraits
feature A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek; Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky; The Publisher by Alan Brinkley; Tocqueville’s Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch
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Author of the week: Daniel S. Greenberg
feature In Tech Transfer, the former Science magazine editor offers a “hilarious” and scathing portrait of how greed and conflict of interest trump the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
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Also of interest ... in spirituality and religion
feature Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch; The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman; Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson; God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero
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Also of interest ... in cosmopolitan crime fiction
feature Still Midnight by Denise Mina; The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbø; Elegy for April by Benjamin Black; The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald
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Also of interest ... in 20th-century novelists
feature Burying the Bones by Hilary Spurling; Muriel Spark by Martin Stannard; A Great Unrecorded History by Wendy Moffat; The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
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Book of the week: The Passage by Justin Cronin
feature One day the author's 9-year-old daughter dared him to write a novel about a girl who saves the world. He ended up launching a new vampire franchise that is as chillingly effective as the hype said it would be.
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Author of the week: Bjorn Lomborg
feature In Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Lomborg suggests using seawater mist to artificially whiten clouds and block out some of the sun’s heat.
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Book of the week: Room by Emma Donoghue
feature The narrator of Room is an engaging five-year old boy who has been kept, along with his mother, in a soundproof backyard shed by a serial rapist.
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Also of interest ... in advanced infotainment
feature The Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellette; The Perfection Point by John Brenkus; Earth (The Book) by Jon Stewart et al.; Ah-Choo by Jennifer Ackerman
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Also of interest ... manifestoes for moderation
feature Dirty, Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain; Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog; On Balance by Adam Phillips; The Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark
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