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Last Updated: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:34:14 -0500

Cruel Love Louise Erdrich’s new novel is a portrait of an “iconic” marriage on its way to dissolution, and it appears to be seeded with deliberate allusions to her own marriage with the writer Michael Dorris. 02/06/2010 05:02 PM Drinking and Grieving The characters in Amy Bloom’s erotically charged, linked stories struggle with love and its loss. 02/05/2010 07:21 PM He’s So Vain The life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women. 02/05/2010 12:51 PM A Touch of Evil This slender mystery novel from Roberto Bolaño presents a surreal vision of prewar Paris. 02/05/2010 12:48 PM A Wrinkle in Time Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert. 02/05/2010 12:35 PM Truth or Dare Poems that shun trickery and flirt with both beauty and boredom. 02/05/2010 12:46 PM The Scoundrel and the Bride Clare Clark’s tale of a woman sent to Louisiana to marry a colonist she’s never met is told in the spirit of a 19th-century novel. 02/05/2010 12:45 PM French Contentions This history examines the moral, religious, artistic and political struggles gripping France before and after the Dreyfus Affair. 02/05/2010 12:36 PM Some Fun Tonight An appreciation of Little Richard, one of rock ’n’ roll’s originators. 02/05/2010 12:30 PM Moving the Deck Chairs Joseph Stiglitz has harsh words for President Obama’s approach to the economic crisis. 02/06/2010 03:08 AM