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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:33 -0400
Peace and War
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.
08/31/2010 11:00 PM
Where It Hurts
An expansive mix of medical reportage, history and memoir explores our relationship to pain.
08/27/2010 11:04 AM
The Language of Exile
Milan Kundera’s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a “post-art” era.
08/31/2010 11:25 AM
Den of Antiquities
Craig Childs explores archaeology’s ethical debates and the costs of discovering lost history.
08/27/2010 11:04 AM
Long Island Confidential
A hapless teacher is hurled from one unsavory spot to the next in this fiercely satirical novel.
08/26/2010 05:21 PM
Revolutionary Road
Seeing the march of American history in the story of the Boston Post Road, a colonial highway turned modern-day ribbon of retail.
08/30/2010 11:31 AM
Hangover in a Strange Land
This memoir of traveling Europe is not shy about reporting on sex, drinking marathons or personal humiliation.
08/27/2010 11:04 AM
Her Darkest Places
A Library of America collection showcases Shirley Jackson’s fascination with psychology, society and the terrors of everyday life.
08/27/2010 10:29 AM
Nuclear Family
The final book in a four-volume series describes the fate of nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union fell.
08/30/2010 11:45 AM
I Get Around
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.
08/27/2010 11:04 AM
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