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    “for anyone who understands the concept that ‘it takes a village to raise a child,’ will understand the concept ‘it takes an Auschwitz to understand a nation.’”

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    A new manager assigned to a project is told by his predecessor that three envelopes have been placed in his top desk drawer and labeled One, Two, and Three.

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    “David Grand’s third novel, Mount Terminus, is written in luscious, erudite prose so dense his readers have no choice but to read it slowly.”

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    Imagine a remake of the movie The Big Chill in which instead of a cast of thirtysomethings the characters are middle-aged college friends who have gathered after a quarter century for the

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    Even readers familiar with Afghanistan’s years of travail under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule, including the trauma of American military intervention, will discover aspects of those times to p

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    “DeLillo’s genius, brilliance, and madness is nothing short of amazing . . .”

    Zero K is one of those books you finish, pause, and think, “Wow!”

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    “By describing her own journey, Chicago offers an unglamorous view of the life of an artist who became famous as well as infamous . . .”

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    “Those wild and crazy mathematicians! . . . The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 is so valuable that this reviewer plans to read it twice again. . . .

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    “The Healthcare Cure is concerned with ‘paying health insurance claims,’ while the rest of the world is focused on improving care.”

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    Careful now: Open your copy of Southern Fried and listen—do you hear all those people talking back to James Villas?

    “No, no, no, those fried green tomatoes need more flour!”

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    “This is strong satire, and many parts are, if not laugh-out loud funny, at least genuinely chuckle-funny.”

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    The promotional materials that accompanied my review copy of James Franco’s debut fiction collection, Palo Alto, set the bar impossibly high for the 30-something actor-turned-writer.

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    Coventry marks a return to a more conventional style of writing, yet retains that same sense of an alert, engaged intelligence, negotiating the complexities of women’s lives and i

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    Forget what you think you know about Henry Kissinger—the professor-careerist who left Nelson Rockefeller to get a job with Richard Nixon, the security assistant who expanded  the Vietnam War into C

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    “A beautiful sentence stops you cold. You savor it not only for what it says but also for the way it is written.

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    “Both fascinating and troubling, this thoughtful history reveals the roots of the official spin that dominates much of today’s news.”

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    “Brian Kellow delivers. . . . the filmic rise and fall of a woman of true brilliance, huge ego, and no small amount of neuroses.”

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    "Faye’s prose seduces readers . . ."

    Writer Michael Sims, on a recent New York Times Book Review podcast, called Sherlock Holmes the “first modern super hero.”

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    “Office Girl’s target readership, like its characters, are legally adults—even though some may still be growing up.”

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    “. . . despite its failings, The Godfather Effect is generally engaging.

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