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Book Review | 'Black Hearts: One Platoon?s Descent Into Madness in Iraq?s Triangle of Death,' by Jim Frederick

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:11:34 GMT
A riveting account of the flawed leadership, bad luck and virulent personalities that led to the 2006 murder of an entire Iraqi family by American soldiers.

Book Review | 'So Much for That,' by Lionel Shriver

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:27:55 GMT
Health care and bank accounts loom large in Lionel Shriver?s multifaceted 10th novel, in which plans, relationships and families are changed by illness.

Book Review | 'Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience,' by Stephen S. Hall

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:34:56 GMT
A science writer addresses the question: What makes a sage?

Comics: The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek - Complete Peanuts - Bloom County Library - Popeye - Plunder Island

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:43:13 GMT
New collections of classic comics, including ?Peanuts,? ?Bloom County? and ?Popeye.?

Book Review | 'The Surrendered,' by Chang-rae Lee

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:52:49 GMT
As death draws near, Chang-rae Lee?s heroine, a Korean War orphan who now lives in New York, sets off for Europe to look for her wayward son.

Book Review | 'Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,' by David Shields

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:39:29 GMT
With an assist from others? quotations, David Shields argues that our deep need for reality is not being met by the old and crumbling models of literature.

Book Review | 'The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage,' by Anthony Brandt

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:44:43 GMT
The boldness and the folly of the explorers who sought the Northwest Passage.

Book Review | 'Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades,' by Jonathan Phillips

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:16 GMT
This ?character driven? account of two centuries of religious combat is the best recent history of the Crusades.

Book Review | 'Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy,' by Melissa Milgrom

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:43:34 GMT
A journalist?s adventures in the world of taxidermy, where she observes the art of incising, skinning, sculpturing and reassembling.

Book Review | 'The Man From Saigon,' by Marti Leimbach

View Original Article Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:04:18 GMT
Vietcong guerrillas capture a female reporter in this vivid Vietnam War novel.

Fiction Chronicle - Novels by Dominick Dunne, Sadie Jones, Melanie Benjamin, Brian Hart and Elizabeth Kostova

View Original Article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:55:57 GMT
Novels by Dominick Dunne, Sadie Jones, Melanie Benjamin, Brian Hart and Elizabeth Kostova.