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June 30, 2010

In Defense of the Memory Theater

June 30, 2010/ Nathan Schneider

Our bookshelves are a hedge against our failing memories, and as such, an extension of our minds. Nathan Schneider explores if and how this sacred role will be preserved in the age of digitization.

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July 2010
June 30, 2010

Open Ears on Clark Terry

June 30, 2010/ Brad Jones

In his regular column, Brad Jones offers a warm tribute to a Jazz legend who has delighted audiences for over sixty years, from Duke Ellington's band to the Tonight Show

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June 30, 2010/ Brad Jones/
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July 2010
June 30, 2010

On the Scent: A Dozen+ Roses

June 30, 2010/ Elisa Gabbert

Roses: they might have smelled sweet to Shakespeare, but what did he know about the perfume industry? Our regular olfactory column takes on the biggest scent cliche of them all.

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Elisa Gabbert, July 2010, On the Scent
June 30, 2010

How, Not If

June 30, 2010/ Greg Waldmann

The so-called Tea Party would like to dump President Obama in Boston Harbor - but even ordinary politicians often misunderstand him. The reasons are simpler than you think.

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June 30, 2010/ Greg Waldmann/
Politics & History
Book Review, greg waldmann, July 2010
June 30, 2010

A Cloud of Voices

June 30, 2010/ Marc Vincenz

A conversation and twenty cigarettes with émigré poet and Fulcrum editor Katia Kapovich

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June 30, 2010/ Marc Vincenz/
Poetry
Interview, July 2010, Poetry
June 30, 2010

Emotional Contagion

June 30, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly

A Conversation with Carissa Halston and Randolph Pfaff about his images for their short play "Patsy"

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June 30, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly/
Arts & Life
July 2010
June 30, 2010

Keeping Up With The Tudors: Bernard’s Theorem

June 30, 2010/ Steve Donoghue

At her trial, Anne Boleyn was accused of adultery, witchcraft, and incest - charges long mocked by historians. But a new book asks: is it possible Anne was actually guilty?

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June 30, 2010/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Tudors
Book Review, henry viii, jane seymour, July 2010, Steve Donoghue
June 30, 2010

Peer Review: Martin Amis, Funny Man

June 30, 2010/ John G. Rodwan, Jr.

For good or ill, when Martin Amis writes a new book, critics swarm to it with strong opinions pro and con - a perfect setting for a clarifying Open Letters Peer Review!

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John G- Rodwan Jr, July 2010, peer review
June 30, 2010

I Am Asking You To Look At Me, Touch Me, Talk To Me

June 30, 2010/ Emily Pettit

There are options regarding /the ice. We can lick it or cross it. Further information /when you want it. Information always blinking. /A chime that rang.

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June 30, 2010/ Emily Pettit/
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July 2010, Poetry
June 30, 2010

American Golgotha

June 30, 2010/ Thomas J. Daly

When colonial tensions were at a boiling point, the British garrisoned troops on Boston Common and put the city under military occupation - until a certain Massacre, that is.

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June 30, 2010/ Thomas J. Daly/
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American Revolution, Book Review, July 2010, Thomas j Daly
June 30, 2010

Revolution in a Half Shell

June 30, 2010/ Kevin Mullins

During the American Revolution, colonists ran blockades, fought sea-battles and ... sent in an attack-submarine? No, it's not time travel - it's the amazing story of the Turtle.

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June 30, 2010/ Kevin Mullins/
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American Revolution, Book Review, July 2010, kevin mullins
June 30, 2010

July 2010 Issue

June 30, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly

"Pride" by Randolph Pfaff and Carissa Halston

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June 30, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly/
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July 2010
June 30, 2010

Crazy in the City

June 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins

In Craig Dilouie's new thriller Tooth and Nail, American troops are called home to New York from war-torn Iraq, only to find there are some horrors far worse than those of war

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June 30, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, July 2010, literary criticism
June 30, 2010

Looking at Betty Draper

June 30, 2010/ Laura Tanenbaum

Mad Men's Betty Draper is spoiled and uppity, but also tragically thwarted by the chauvinism of the era. As Season Four begins, her fate on the show is coming to a head.

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Arts & Life
July 2010
June 30, 2010

A Certain Perturbation

June 30, 2010/ Sam Sacks

In Absence of Mind, Marilynne Robinson explores both the dynamics of faith and the complacency of recent anti-faith screeds. But is her own book something of a fall from grace?

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June 30, 2010/ Sam Sacks/
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July 2010, Marilynne Robinson, Sam Sacks, Yale University Press
June 30, 2010

A Year with Short Novels: Breakfast at Sally Bowles’

June 30, 2010/ Ingrid Norton

Readers have adored Truman Capote's iconic Holly Golightly; they might be amazed, then, by how much Capote borrowed from Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles

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June 30, 2010/ Ingrid Norton/
Features
A Year with Short Novels, fiction, Ingrid Norton, July 2010
June 30, 2010

It’s A Mystery: “His job was to save her life”

June 30, 2010/ Irma Heldman

The final book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, leaves no doubt that Lisbeth Salander, his punk hacker protagonist, has no equal in the annals of crime fiction

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June 30, 2010/ Irma Heldman/
Features
Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, July 2010
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