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Brainwash, Condition, Repeat: Dave Eggers's "The Circle"
Dave Eggers's new novel, The Circle, has a refreshingly dystopian take on the transparency movement, but, even as satire, it's a disappointment.
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A Former Soviet Union: Elliott Holt's "You Are One of Them"
It's the season of the expatriate.
“All Will Be Explained”: Sara Gran’s “Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway”
Gran’s building something here, something bigger and better than a mere series.
Pride and Paragon: Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Laurie Winer reviews the Audible.com version of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."
Pulling Teeth: In Search of a Quality Metallica Biography
In search of a quality Metallica biography.
Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
A Brave New Perspective of Suburbia: Katherine Bucknell’s "+1"
A view of suburbia through rose-colored glasses …
The Super Schlemiels
It's the oldest story in comic book history: a wild dream transmogrifies into a money-minting machine, and its creator doesn’t get what he/she earned.
A Legion of Davids
King David has been the subject of as much lore as any figure from ancient history other than Jesus.
American Renaissance
Rachel Lee Rubin makes a strong case that the history of the renaissance faire is deeply intertwined with the history of the American counterculture.
Of Gods and Philosophers
David E Cooper reviews Ronald Dworkin’s last (posthumously published) book, Religion Without God.
Beyond Canonization: On S.T. Joshi’s “Unutterable Horror”
Medical Myths and Healing History: Hinrichs and Barnes’s Chinese Medicine
A book for anyone looking to understand the historical roots of contemporary Chinese medical practices
Bleeding Horizons: "Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible"
Is biography ever enough? Even as it fills in the gaps of a rough-hewn life, a new exhibition of the paintings of Forrest Bess does more for a lurid fascination with his story than for an understanding of Bess's art.
The Assassin’s Challenge
How did Swat, Pakistan, come to be a place where an extremist could shoot a child in public at midday, and get away with it?
Burma’s Last Royals
The mixed fortunes of Burma’s last royal family.
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