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Book World: Robert and Dayna Baer's 'true-life spy story,' 'The Company We Keep'
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March 15, 2011; 11:35 AM)
Book review: 'The Trinity Six' by Charles Cumming
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March 15, 2011; 11:35 AM)
The actor Alan Arkin tells how to live "An Improvised Life" in his memoir of that name.
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March 15, 2011; 10:59 AM)
Jill Bialosky's "History of a Suicide"
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March 15, 2011; 10:56 AM)
Maya Jasanoff's "Liberty's Exiles," on British Loyalists after the revolution
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March 15, 2011; 10:27 AM)
Dani Rodrik's "The Globalization Paradox"
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March 15, 2011; 10:20 AM)
Thomas E. Kennedy's "Falling Sideways"
(By Jonathan Yardley,
March 15, 2011; 10:18 AM)
Michael Connelly, author of "The Lincoln Lawyer"
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March 14, 2011; 5:46 PM)
'Three Stages of Amazement': Life's lessons skillfilly shared
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March 11, 2011; 8:44 PM)
'Rawhide Down,' a gripping account of the day Reagan was shot
(By David Baldacci,
March 11, 2011; 5:17 PM)
Book World: Lionel Shriver reviews Yan Lianke's 'Dream of Ding Village'
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March 11, 2011; 12:32 AM)
Mat Johnson's 'Pym' re-imagines Poe's social satire
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March 9, 2011; 8:42 PM)
Book review: Sarah Pekkanen's 'Skipping a Beat'
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March 8, 2011; 10:19 PM)
Five finalists for National Book Critics Circle award in poetry
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March 8, 2011; 10:14 PM)
Book review: 'The Tiger's Wife' by Tea Obreht
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March 8, 2011; 10:14 PM)
Book World: Keith Donohue reviews Kevin Brockmeier's novel 'The Illumination'
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March 8, 2011; 12:34 AM)
Patrick Anderson reviews Keith Thomson's 'Twice a Spy'
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March 6, 2011; 10:37 PM)
Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists are drawing attention
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March 6, 2011; 10:28 PM)
The American Scholar's Wendy Smith reviews 'Ghost Light' by Joseph O'Connor
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March 4, 2011; 7:02 PM)
Joshua Foer's 'Moonwalking With Einstein,' on the nature of memory
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March 4, 2011; 4:50 PM)
Book reviews: Ben Katchor's 'The Cardboard Valise' and Joyce Farmer's 'Special Exits: A Gr aphic Memoir'
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March 4, 2011; 4:23 PM)
3 books on New York City neighborhoods
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March 4, 2011; 1:08 PM)
Bing West's "The Wrong War," on Afghanistan strategy
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March 4, 2011; 12:59 PM)
Deb Olin Unferth's 'Revolution'
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March 4, 2011; 12:52 PM)
Dominic Sandbrook's "Mad as Hell," on rise of populist right
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March 4, 2011; 12:45 PM)
"Townie," a memoir by Andre Dubus III
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March 4, 2011; 12:31 PM)
"An Extravagant Hunger," about M.F.K. Fisher
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March 4, 2011; 12:20 PM)
Gordon Brown's "Beyond the Crash"
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March 4, 2011; 11:23 AM)
Jim Steinmeyer's "The Last Greatest Magician in the World"
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March 4, 2011; 11:00 AM)
Stephanie Staal's 'Reading Women': Looking to feminist texts to find herself
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March 3, 2011; 9:59 PM)
Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge
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March 3, 2011; 8:34 PM)
Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles
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March 1, 2011; 11:19 PM)
"Underground," a picture book by Shane W. Evans
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March 1, 2011; 8:04 PM)
"Wheels of Change," a kids' history of women and bicycles
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March 1, 2011; 8:03 PM)
"Strings Attached," a young adult mystery from Judy Blundell
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March 1, 2011; 8:03 PM)
Book review: 'Playing Catch-Up' by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
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March 1, 2011; 7:25 PM)
Anna Mundow reviews 'Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer,' by Wesley Stace
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February 27, 2011; 6:51 PM)
Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
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February 26, 2011; 5:31 PM)
Philip K. Dick, the sci-fi writer who fires Hollywood's imagination in film after film
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February 26, 2011; 5:24 PM)
Judi Dench's wry, shy take on a glorious stage career
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February 26, 2011; 5:21 PM)
Allison Pearson's 'I Think I Love You': A celebrity crush turns star-crossed
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February 25, 2011; 6:52 PM)
A review of 'Crazy U,' by Andrew Ferguson, about his family's college admissions experience
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February 25, 2011; 3:50 PM)
"The Natural Navigator" by Tristan Gooley
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February 25, 2011; 11:43 AM)
Douglas Waller's "Wild Bill Donovan," on the OSS spymaster
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February 25, 2011; 10:59 AM)
Biography of Bogart examines his ongoing cultural impact
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February 25, 2011; 10:59 AM)
"Inherently Unequal" -- the sad history of the Supreme Court and civil rights
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February 25, 2011; 10:59 AM)
Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age"
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February 25, 2011; 10:59 AM)
Susan Conley's 'Good Fortune': Riveting memoir about being American in China
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February 24, 2011; 8:19 PM)
'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent
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February 23, 2011; 8:09 PM)
Book review: 'The Death Instinct' by Jed Rubenfeld
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February 22, 2011; 9:57 PM)
T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel
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February 22, 2011; 8:09 PM)
New in paperback: 'A Mountain of Crumbs' and more
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February 22, 2011; 5:50 PM)
Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned'
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February 21, 2011; 5:27 PM)
'Tiger Mother' author faces a tough crowd at Politics and Prose
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February 20, 2011; 10:41 PM)
'The Collaborator': Taking on a modern-day Italian crime family
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February 20, 2011; 9:52 PM)
'The History of History': An imaginative look at Berlin
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February 18, 2011; 9:03 PM)
Two books on blacks and the White House
(By Patricia Sullivan,
February 18, 2011; 8:27 PM)
Scott Brown's memoir, 'Against All Odds,' reveals troubled childhood for senator
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February 17, 2011; 8:57 PM)
Kenneth Slawenski's biography of J.D. Salinger
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February 17, 2011; 6:49 PM)
Yardley reviews Jonathan Gill's "Harlem"
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February 17, 2011; 6:49 PM)
Mary Cappello's "Swallow"
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February 17, 2011; 6:48 PM)
Peter Bergen's "The Longest War"
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February 17, 2011; 6:47 PM)
3 books about iconic artists
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February 17, 2011; 6:46 PM)
Book review: 'George Gershwin,' a new biography by Larry Starr
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February 17, 2011; 6:46 PM)
The Peace Corps at 50
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February 17, 2011; 6:43 PM)
'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation
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February 16, 2011; 5:55 PM)
Books: Eleanor Brown's 'The Weird Sisters,' reviewed by Ron Charles
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February 15, 2011; 10:49 PM)
5 books about words
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February 15, 2011; 10:05 PM)
"A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear,"
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February 15, 2011; 9:42 PM)
Book review: 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut
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February 14, 2011; 11:05 PM)
Performing opera version of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran'
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February 14, 2011; 12:01 AM)
Book review: Hackneyed rules of suspense disappear in Hayder's 'Gone'
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February 13, 2011; 8:37 PM)
Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England
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February 11, 2011; 10:18 PM)
Conservatives queue up for peek at 'Atlas Shrugged' at CPAC
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February 11, 2011; 10:17 PM)
Book World: Michael Oher's 'I Beat the Odds' is story of redemption
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February 11, 2011; 6:10 PM)
Two books on the Arctic
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February 11, 2011; 10:42 AM)
Joyce Carol Oates's "A Widow's Story"
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February 11, 2011; 10:42 AM)
"The Sublime Engine," about the human heart
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February 11, 2011; 10:42 AM)
"The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
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February 11, 2011; 10:41 AM)
"The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates
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February 11, 2011; 10:41 AM)
"Spousonomics," by Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson, applies economics to marriage.
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February 11, 2011; 10:41 AM)
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects
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February 11, 2011; 10:41 AM)
'Moneymakers' review: Truly fun tales of 19th-century counterfeiters
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February 10, 2011; 7:10 PM)
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself
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February 9, 2011; 10:48 PM)
Redwall author Brian Jacques dead at 71
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February 9, 2011; 8:30 PM)
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
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February 8, 2011; 10:36 PM)
Five books for Valentine's Day
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February 8, 2011; 6:06 PM)
Anna Mundow reviews 'The Winter Ghosts' by 'Labyrinth' author Kate Mosse
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February 8, 2011; 6:05 PM)
Donald Rumsfeld quiz: Do you know 'Known and Unknown'?
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February 8, 2011; 10:16 AM)
Gwen Ifill reviews Donald Rumsfeld's memoir, "Known and Unknown"
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February 8, 2011; 12:05 AM)
Dan Fesperman reviews 'Donald,' by Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott
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February 8, 2011; 12:05 AM)
Author Allison Pearson sings the song of the modern mom
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February 6, 2011; 11:10 PM)
Book World: Patrick Anderson reviews 'The Devotion of Suspect X'
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February 6, 2011; 6:19 PM)
Going Out Guide: Free & easy
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February 6, 2011; 5:07 PM)
Allen Shawn's memoir "Twin"
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February 6, 2011)
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