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1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer: review
Telegraph - 10 Hours ago
Dominic Sandbrook on Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer, a genuinely three-dimensional portrait of a man who transcended his times No king of England has ever come close to matching the reputation
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'A Dream of Undying Fame' by Louis Breger
Los Angeles Times - 15 Hours ago
A Dream of Undying Fame How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis Louis Breger Basic Books: 148 pp., $22.95 Psychoanalysis has always been a mixed bag, Louis Breger notes. On the one hand,
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Twilight : The world's richest bloody franchise
New Zealand Herald - 16 Hours ago
Have you been bitten? If you're over 20, or happen to own a Y chromosome, the answer is probably not. But if you talked to a teenage girl at the weekend, or stepped into the crowded foyer of a cinema,
The world's richest bloody franchise Irish Independent
Twlight: the world's richest bloody franchise The Independent
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Noted Chinese translator dies at 95 (2)
People's Daily Online - 7 Hours ago
The photo taken on October, 2006 shows Yang Xianyi in his home. (Xinhua/Tang Shizeng) ã?1ã?? ã?2ã?? ã?3ã??
Noted Chinese translator dies at 95 (3) People's Daily Online
Noted Chinese translator dies at 95 People's Daily Online
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Rebels and Traitors, By Lindsey Davis
The Independent - 16 Hours ago
Epic proves a battle to get through Reviewed by Marianne Brace Close Weighing in at 742 pages, Lindsey Davis's English Civil War epic is not â?? in any sense â?? a light read. How different from her jaunty
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Shining
London Review of Books - 9 Hours ago
Itâ??s strange to find the New York Times Book Review devoting three full pages to yet another round of the Gordon Lish/Raymond Carver spat, previously addressed (at length) in, for example, The New
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Book Review: William and Harry, The People's Princes By Ingrid Seward
Individual.com - 13 Hours ago
JFK, John Lennon, Princess Diana. Most of us over 50 will never forget where we were and what we were doing when we learned of these very public losses. Diana's death struck a nerve in particular because
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Recommended events this week
Chicago Tribune - 20 Hours ago
For week of Nov. 28 through Dec. 4. Saturday reporter Rick Kogan and photographer Charles Osgood () will discuss and sign copies of their latest book, at 2 p.m. at , 7419 W. Madison, in Forest Park.
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'As God Commands' by Niccol Ammaniti
Los Angeles Times - 20 Hours ago
When it comes to crime novels, the word 'grit' suggests both authenticity and earthiness -- rude language, rough humor, animality, graphic details. It's the intrusion of the body -- physical reality --
'As God Commands' by Niccolò Ammaniti Los Angeles Times
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'What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures' by Malcolm Gladwell
Los Angeles Times - 20 Hours ago
What the Dog Saw And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown: 410 pp., $27.99 Book critics at major metropolitan newspapers receive hundreds of books each week. A couple of decades ago, most of
Alex Remington: Better: The Malcolm Gladwell of the Medical World Offers His Thoughts Huffington Post
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Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Maras: review
Telegraph - 11/23/2009
Tim Martin is astonished by Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías, the concluding part of the Your Face Tomorrow spy trilogy Like the first two books in Javier Maríasâ??s incomparably strange
Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías: review Telegraph
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Culture Clinic: Charles Cumming
Telegraph - 11/23/2009
Spy writer Charles Cumming submits to a little light therapy PATIENTâ??S NOTES Name: Charles Cumming Age: 38 Job: Novelist Last book read: The Music Room by William Fiennes Last film seen: An Education
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New Zealand Book Council video
Chicago Tribune - 11/23/2009
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Book Review: Zumba By Celebrity Fitness Trainer Beto Perez [Basil and Spice]
TMC Net - 11/23/2009
(Basil & Spice Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 22--Like many people, I was hooked on Zumba after just one class. I walked out of the class, sweat pouring down, with a big smile on my face. The Latin-inspired
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The Habit of Art | Theatre review
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Lyttelton, London WH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person
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Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Machine gun prose meets labyrinthine plot in James Ellroy's latest, says Sean O'Hagan The title of James Ellroy's latest novel is taken from AE Housman's poem "Reveille", a very English meditation on
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy | Book review Observer
Blood's a Rover, By James Ellroy The Independent
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The Physiology of Taste â?? Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
This 1825 account of one man's passionate relationship with food remains an appetising read, says Mary Fitzgerald Since its completion in 1825, this handbook has appeared in so many different guises
Transcendental Meditation May Keep Your Heart Beatingâ??and Ease College Anxiety Health.com
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The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Nabokov's incomplete last novel shows flashes of brilliance, but why it was published remains unclear, says William Skidelsky This is a book that wouldn't exist if its author had had his way. Shortly
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov | Book review Observer
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov edited by Dmitri Nabokov Times Online
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
A bravura biography paints a masterly portrait of Charles II, says Geraldine Bedell In May 1660, Charles II disembarked in front of cheering crowds at Dover, following a nine-year exile. He had been invited
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The Paris Review Interviews Vol 4 edited by Philip Gourevitch
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's
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Rectification
London Review of Books - 11/23/2009
Philosophical theories of justice generally assign an important role to rectification , the putting right of past wrongs. Thierry Henryâ??s handball in Franceâ??s World Cup qualifier against Ireland last
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Book Review: 'Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free
Seeking Alpha - 11/23/2009
This masterpiece from the Princeton University Press is an amalgamation of some of the most intelligent minds in economics. The contributors include: Eytan Sheshinski, Robert J. Strom, William J. Baumol,
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Oxfam and Booksellers Agree to Plan
New York Times - 11/23/2009
Oxfam, the international charity that earns about $32 million annually from sales of used books, is trying to address the concerns of private bookstore owners, who in September accused the nonprofit group
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Book Review: Writing Begins with the Breath
Suite101.com - 11/23/2009
Laraine Herring Combines Writing and Yoga © Staci Dumoski Built upon the practice of yoga, Laraine Herring offers insight and exercises to help writers find and embody their authentic voice. Among the
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Suffix It: A Book Review By Matt Ellis
XpatLoop.com - 11/23/2009
In one phantasmagoric sequence reminiscent of Victor Palavin (who I have brought up before in this blog: he is the â??thinking manâ??sâ?? Murakami), a night of drinking turns into a potential ménage-�
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