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January 01, 1990 - December 09, 2012 + Bookworm
Camille Paglia 
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon)
Firebrand Paglia devotes her energies to a vibrant demonstration of...
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
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Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)In the second part of our conversation, we explore the historical and social forces that shape Marilynne Robinson's narrator, John...
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
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Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)The loveliness of life, life itself as a blessing, is the subject of Marilynne Robinson's beautiful book. In this...
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World
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A wizard of a storyteller, Greenblatt combines prodigious historical research and encyclopedic knowledge to conjure a vision of life and love in Elizabethan England.
Cynthia Ozick
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Heir to the Glimmering World (Houghton Mifflin)Eccentric and beautiful, Cynthia Ozick's novel is about an immigrant family's attempts to preserve a dying esoteric...
Mark Helprin
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The Pacific and Other Stories (Penguin)
Mark Helprin's critics--who mainly regard him as a political conservative and, therefore, a traitor to imaginative literature--have made him...
Joy Williams
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Honored Guest: Stories (Knopf)
Joy Williams, specialist in what should be called sorrowful hilarity, reads from her work. Pretty soon we discover that what we...
Dave Eggers
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How We Are Hungry: Stories (McSweeney-s) Dave Eggers begins by describing his book as an object (it-s designed to look like a Moleskine Journal)....
Susan Sontag
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The Volcano LoverNovelist, essayist and driving intellectual force, Susan Sontag, died late last year. In her memory, we offer this conversation, first broadcast in October...
August Kleinzahler
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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A a single, perfectly placed phrase brings an essay about the death...
Alan Hollinghurst
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The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury) Allan Hollinghurst-s Booker Prize-winning novel pits the aesthetic sensibility against the deprivations of Margaret Thatcher-s London-here seen as the...
Russell Banks
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The more closely you investigate Russell Banks' powerful new novel, The Darling, the stranger it becomes. Set in Liberia, it explores its heroine's narcissistic...
Orhan Pamuk
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Snow (Knopf)
Turkey's preeminent novelist, Orhan Pamuk, has decided to write a political novel-without a political agenda. The result resembles -- but not quite -- the...
Courtney Angela Brkic
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The Stone Fields
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Courtney Angela Brkic recruited her forensic skills to help exhume and identity bodies from besieged villages in Bosnia. She...
Louis de Bernières
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Birds without Wings (Knopf)
In a conversation about the birth of the conflicts that beset us, Louis de Bernières (Corelli's Mandolin) talks about a Turkish...
