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Star of the Orient

New York Times Book Review - Sun, 10/05/2008 - 21:18
This novel’s protean, real-life heroine starts out as a film sensation in occupied China and ends up in Japanese Parliament.

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Wild in the Streets

New York Times Book Review - Sun, 10/05/2008 - 18:54
Liz Robbins, a veteran Times reporter, tells the story of the New York City Marathon.

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Browsing Books: Editors’ Choice

New York Times Book Review - Sun, 10/05/2008 - 01:16
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

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TBR: Inside the List

New York Times Book Review - Sun, 10/05/2008 - 01:15
After his suicide, David Foster Wallace has a book on the list for the first time; John Barth, one of Wallace's forebears, also appears on the list.

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NBA's Alonzo Mourning Touts 'Resilience' In Memoir

NPR Books - Sat, 10/04/2008 - 21:02

In 2000, the muscular, 6-feet-10-inch NBA star was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening kidney disease. Alonzo Mourning made a full recovery following a transplant. Now, he's written a memoir about the obstacles he had to overcome on the road back to the NBA.

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Doris Lessing Revisits — And Rewrites — The Past

NPR Books - Sat, 10/04/2008 - 13:01

As she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people.

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Eco-nomics

New York Times Book Review - Sat, 10/04/2008 - 04:28
Thomas L. Friedman makes the case that green politics are compatible with big business.

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Man in the Middle

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 23:47
Avi Shlaim and Nigel Ashton examine the long, remarkable reign of King Hussein of Jordan.

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Divorce American Style

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 17:57
Alec Baldwin’s attack on the family law system is also a sad memoir of a marriage gone desperately sour.

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The Lost Child

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 17:45
Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir of a pregnancy gone wrong.

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Dying of the Light

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 17:36
With no faith in an afterlife, why should an agnostic fear death? On this simple question, Barnes hangs an elegant memoir and meditation, full of a novelist’s affection for his characters.

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Say What?

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 16:40
David Lodge’s novel attempts to mine the comic potential of hearing impairment.

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The Master and the Mistress

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 16:38
Annette Gordon-Reed traces the experiences of this slave family, and their relationship to the Jeffersons, over three generations.

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Letters: Our Bodies, Our Selves

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 15:55
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Letters: Details, Details

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 15:54
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Letters: RAND Awareness

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 15:51
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Letters: I’m a Frayed Knot

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 15:49
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The Counterinsurgent

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 15:14
According to Linda Robinson’s book on the latest chapter in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus wanted to fight smarter and send more troops.

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Archive: Book Review Podcast

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 12:17
This week: Alex Kuczynski on Alec Baldwin’s memoir of divorce; Charles McGrath on a Nobel Prize controversy; James Traub on Gen. David Petraeus; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

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Essay: The Ambition of the Short Story

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 11:57
There are virtues associated with smallness. It is the realm of elegance and grace. It’s also the realm of perfection.

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