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Allen Ginsberg, 'Selected Poems'
Best of the Beats
It is fashionable and therefore easy to appreciate "Howl," but this volume, however inconsistent, is filled with gems that belong in the western canon.
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Paul Auster’s ‘Report from the Interior’
Is autobiography actually possible?
Paul Auster’s new volume of memoirs raises the question of whether one can know one’s own self — and whether there is actually a self to be known.
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Kevin Birmingham and Maya Lang at the Free Library
Celebrating Bloomsday and all things 'Ulysses'
Two authors and the most conflicted fans in literature celebrate James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Linda Brendle's 'Long and Winding Road'
When reality is more inspiring than "reality"
Everyone seems to write a memoir these days, and the authors are often famous entertainers or the survivors of a well-publicized crisis. Linda Brendle is an “ordinary” person, which is part of the reason her book resonates so deeply.
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Bill Watterson: An introvert's appreciation
Happy birthday, Mr. Watterson, wherever you are
When Bill Watterson worked on Calvin and Hobbes, he had no need (and even less desire) to leave the house seeking acclaim or inspiration. Everything he needed was inside his own head.
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Andrew J. Bacevich's 'Breach of Trust'
The great betrayal
In Breach of Trust, career officer turned political scientist Andrew J. Bacevich traces the woes of today’s military, and much of our politics as well, to the volunteer army instituted after Vietnam. Is a return to the draft a solution?
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'An Officer and a Spy' by Robert Harris
A retelling of the Dreyfus affair
The Dreyfus affair, as presented by novelist Robert Harris in An Officer and a Spy, raises issues around secrecy and spying that still resonate today.
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'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov
Sympathy for the devil?
Mikhail Bulgakov dealt with the twinned madnesses of Stalinism and his expectation of a short life through the full, flailing exercise of will, intelligence, and faith.
'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' by James Agee and Walker Evans
Let Us Now Praise James Agee
This is a book of stunning honesty and self-awareness and inspired observation. Its humanity is as blinding and magnificent and humble as its prose is magesterial.
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Bill McKibben’s ‘Oil and Honey’
The Jeremiah of global climate change
In his new book, Oil and Honey, Bill McKibben, America’s foremost environmentalist, describes his own journey from prophet of disaster to political activist. It’s a crusade with the highest of stakes: our planetary future.
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