Dangerous Liaisons
How Hollywood seduced the world, then ate it.
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A Civilizing Influence
Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet paints a softer face on the historical interactions between Muslims and the West
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Has Childhood Gone AWOL?
Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape
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The Life Quixotic
Cervantes’ man of la Mancha rides again
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David Byrne turns the deadly sins on their head to say something new about the world
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Cities in a Raw Young Century
Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city
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Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon books by tom wolfe discussed in this essay: I Am Charlotte Simmons HarperCollins (2004) 676 pp., $37.95 Hooking Up Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) 293 pp., …
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Hockey: The Great Literary Shutout
Hockey literature takes a bodycheck
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Burning Man
Books discussed in this essay An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 320 pp., $36 Buddha by Karen Armstrong Penguin 205 …
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A Manual’s Labours
The self-help sex book, like its first readers, has crossed middle age. With Viagra, both get a little lift
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