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  The End of the Beginning

  Los Angeles was different. No tear gas here: our elected representatives wanted us to be comfortable.

  Ben EhrenreichDec 13, 2011

• World-Shifting: Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"

  The novel is strongest when it sticks to its most powerful idea, the one implied by its title: the world as a kind of question.

  Dec 12, 2011
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  Tiger Lady: On Joan Williams

  Faulkner tried the personae of mentor, father figure, and literary conduit in an effort to have a love affair that trumped the other roles.

  Lisa C. HickmanDec 11, 2011
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  Sucker Punch

  A response to Glen David Gold’s piece

  
  

  about William Faulkner and Joan Williams.

  E.C. McCarthyDec 11, 2011
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  Discoveries: Robert Vivian

  Susan Salter ReynoldsDec 10, 2011
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  Discoveries: Nathaniel Philbrick

  The greed that reached full bloom here in our lifetimes was still a glimmer in Daddy's eye.

  Susan Salter ReynoldsDec 10, 2011

• Discoveries: Christopher Merrill

  Susan Salter ReynoldsDec 10, 2011

• The Return of the Gods

  This is what the authors call the polytheistic life; or, more simply, the good life.

  Arne De BoeverDec 8, 2011

• Southpaw Grammar

  Although Smits casts a wide net and writes with evident enthusiasm, it isn't clear, by the end of the book, why he took the trouble to write it.

  David YourdonDec 7, 2011

• Genghis Khan's DNA

  Ingrid NortonDec 6, 2011
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  The Pump You Pump the Water From

  Writing can't be planned for or predicted, and when it happens, when the surge begins, it brings a satisfaction like nothing else.

  Sven BirkertsDec 5, 2011
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  Letter From Cairo

  Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes.

  Frederick DeknatelDec 5, 2011
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  Between the Georges: In Memory of George Hickenlooper (1963-2010)

  He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life.

  F.X. FeeneyDec 4, 2011

• A Smooth Dialectical Dance

  Dec 3, 2011

• Waking from the Dream of Alaska

  For Melinda Moustakis, Alaska is not a region of the imagination; it is a bracingly real place.

  Lisa Locascio NighthawkDec 3, 2011

• Taste is the Great Divider: On Pauline Kael

  She had the devotion to an ideal shared by geniuses and sociopaths.

  Laurie WinerDec 2, 2011