"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908) British author
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Freedom Trains
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:59:51 GMT
Isabel Wilkerson’s masterly account of the Great Migration tells the story of the six million African-Americans who moved away from the South between 1915 and 1970.
 
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Simian Says
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:45:10 GMT
Sara Gruen’s busy novel, which concerns six bonobos and the people who conduct language studies with them, addresses a vast sweep of animal-human issues.
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Bringing It All Back Home
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:17 GMT
The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.
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Stormy Weather
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:31 GMT
This novel’s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.
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Worlds in Collision
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph’s novel.
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No. 1 Sleuth
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.
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Hannibal Rising
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:07:35 GMT
A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.
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Lost Tribe
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:30 GMT
A New Yorker travels to Israel to make amends with her settler sister in this novel about American Jews in the Holy Land.
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Living in Your Head
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:39 GMT
Charles Yu wraps his lonely story of a time machine repairman in glittering layers of gorgeous meta-science-fiction.
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Science Fiction Chronicle
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
Science fiction by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.
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Words Cannot Express
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
Guy Deutscher’s argument about the basis of language is informed by the way we perceive and name colors.
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Ghost, Come Back Again
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
Paul Murray’s smart comic novel, set in a Dublin boys’ school, is an elegy to lost youth.
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Endless War
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:00:54 GMT
Andrew J. Bacevich forcefully denounces 60 years of American militarism in this bracing and intelligent polemic.
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Unhappy Days
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
The historian Laura Kalman looks at the Ford and Carter years.
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Immortal Beloved
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A man loses his wife to death but finds her somewhere else in this debut novel.
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