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View Original Article Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:30:02 GMT
Like Jonathan Franzen?s previous novel, ?The Corrections,? this is a masterly portrait of a nuclear family in turmoil, with a majestic sweep that gathers every sociocultural morsel of our shared millennial life.

View Original Article Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:26:54 GMT
An expansive mix of medical reportage, history and memoir explores our relationship to pain.

View Original Article Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:25:30 GMT
Milan Kundera?s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a ?post-art? era.

View Original Article Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:04:38 GMT
Craig Childs explores archaeology?s ethical debates and the costs of discovering lost history.

View Original Article Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:21:04 GMT
A hapless teacher is hurled from one unsavory spot to the next in this fiercely satirical novel.

View Original Article Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:31:01 GMT
Seeing the march of American history in the story of the Boston Post Road, a colonial highway turned modern-day ribbon of retail.

View Original Article Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:04:38 GMT
This memoir of traveling Europe is not shy about reporting on sex, drinking marathons or personal humiliation.

View Original Article Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:29:45 GMT
A Library of America collection showcases Shirley Jackson?s fascination with psychology, society and the terrors of everyday life.

View Original Article Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:45:27 GMT
The final book in a four-volume series describes the fate of nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union fell.

View Original Article Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:04:38 GMT
An absorbing biography of a man who was an academic, a writer, a tattoo artist and an avid sexual adventurer in pre-Stonewall gay America.

View Original Article Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:04:38 GMT
In this first novel, a Somali orphan roams the world.