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Author of the week: Richard Dawkins
feature Even if there is "something else out there" in the universe, evolution, not the supernatural, would explain its development, says Richard Dawkins, whose latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth, shows why the eviden
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Book of the week: True Compass: A Memoir by Ted Kennedy
feature The late senator’s memoir turns out to be “a book that all but the most toxic Kennedy critic could love,” said Matthew V. Storin in The Boston Globe.
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
feature The author of Into Thin Air provides a “nuanced, thorough, and chilling” account of the cover-up of the death of Pat Tillman by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
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Author of the week: Nick Hornby
feature More than a decade after his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, the “founder of Lad Lit” is choosing to write about female characters. <
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Also of interest ... in the comedy trade
feature And Here’s the Kicker by Mike Sacks; Second City Unscripted by Mike Thomas; I Shudder by Paul Rudnick; I’m Dying U
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Book of the week: The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
feature In her “eloquent” new book, Karen Armstrong tries to bridge the gap between believers and nonbelievers.
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Also of interest ... titles in the news
feature The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller; The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt; Lessons in Disaster by Gordon Goldstein; A Better War by Lewis So
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
feature The author of The Glass Castle has once again drawn on her family's hardscrabble history in West Texas and cast her grandmother's life story into a first-person account.
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Book of the week: A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
feature Readers who accept the challenge of pouring through the 200-plus essays in this 1,096-page book will be taken on an historical tour that is “richly surprising and consistently enlightening.”
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Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor by Tad Friend
feature Friend's beautifully written book offers a convincing argument for why WASP culture collapsed in the mid-1960s.
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Author of the week: Sonny Barger
feature The 71-year-old founder of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels has recently published first book, Let’s Ride, a how-to guide loaded with road rules.
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Also of interest ... in unusual careers
feature Zoo Story by Thomas French; Denial by Jessica Stern; Priceless by Robert K. Wittman; Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
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Book of the week: You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup by Peter Doggett
feature Doggett focuses on The Beatles' business entanglements, which bound the group together and also drove it apart.
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The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman
feature Among yoga's early practitioners in the U.S. were Emerson’s Transcendentalists, and later, such Hollywood stars as Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo.
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