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April 30, 2010

On the Scent: Five from Sonoma Scent Studio

April 30, 2010/ Elisa Gabbert

From ancient Egypt and Rome to the present, humans have always been fascinated by perfume; a new feature looks at the craft and aesthetics of making scents.

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May 2010
April 30, 2010

Counterfeit Wit

April 30, 2010/ Sam Sacks

Liars and impostors have been Peter Carey's bread and butter for 30 years--so he's up to mischief when he takes on the beloved and upright Alexis de Tocqueville in a new novel.

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April 30, 2010/ Sam Sacks/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, May 2010, Sam Sacks
April 30, 2010

Not Blocking The Exploding

April 30, 2010/ Nate Pritts

.... There’s just this one next thing /plunked down, weighty & here, after the last //next thing burned off in mist.

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April 30, 2010/ Nate Pritts/
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May 2010, Poetry
April 30, 2010

Cat's Owls

April 30, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly

"Owls are majestic creatures. Their stolid quality is exactly what attracts me to them. I purposefully chose those images based on the ability that this animal has to move with such grace and poise, as if always in perfect control."

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Arts & Life
May 2010
April 30, 2010

Smiling, and Back to Work

April 30, 2010/ Abraham Benrubi

In 2007-2008, the world's financial markets experienced ample "creative destruction." Now in paperback is this rich (no pun intended) life of the man who coined the term.

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April 30, 2010/ Abraham Benrubi/
Politics & History
Book Review, May 2010
April 30, 2010

The Nautilus

April 30, 2010/ Steve Donoghue

When John Ruskin, the foremost architectural critic of the Victorian era, discovered Venice, he fell in love. An elaborate new work paints the picture in great detail.

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April 30, 2010/ Steve Donoghue/
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Book Review, fiction, John Ruskin, May 2010, Steve Donoghue, venice
April 30, 2010

The Mines of Mania

April 30, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to game we go as Phillip Lobo delves into the subterranean pleasures of Dwarfortress

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April 30, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo/
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May 2010
April 30, 2010

Ragged Ishmael

April 30, 2010/ Kevin Mullins

"Mad Bomber" Sam Melville protested the Vietnam War by blowing up buildings, and he died unrepentant in the Attica riots - but what, if anything, was his legacy?

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April 30, 2010/ Kevin Mullins/
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Book Review, kevin mullins, May 2010
April 30, 2010

The Playground of the Gods

April 30, 2010/ Janet Potter

Hermes, god of thieves and liars, is the narrator of John Banville's new novel The Infinities. Janet Potter looks into the story he's got to tell.

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April 30, 2010/ Janet Potter/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, May 2010
April 30, 2010

Zen and the Art of Skull-Impaling

April 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins

Even in these fractious times, we can all agree that zombies are bad, and that killing zombies is good. But how exactly do you do it? A new book hones your technique.

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April 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction
Book Review, fiction, May 2010
April 30, 2010

May 2010 Issue

April 30, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly

"Owl#1 (from the Dan Series)" by Catherine Bourassa-Hébert

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May 2010
April 30, 2010

A Year with Short Novels: Awash with Conrad

April 30, 2010/ Ingrid Norton

It was only a matter of time before our Year with Short Novels got around to the most famous one of them all and traveled deep into The Heart of Darkness.

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April 30, 2010/ Ingrid Norton/
Features
A Year with Short Novels, fiction, Ingrid Norton, May 2010
April 30, 2010

Onward, Muriel, Onward!

April 30, 2010/ Dagmar Iversson

Perceptive, cosmopolitan British novelist Muriel Spark has at last received an enormous and long-promised biography. Is justice done - or perhaps overdone?

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April 30, 2010/ Dagmar Iversson/
Fiction
Anthony Burgess, biography, Book Review, fiction, gore vidal, Lionel Trilling, May 2010
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