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May 31, 2010

The Summer’s Rage of Fire

May 31, 2010/ A.C. Childers

World War I is known for its inching attrition, but both sides tried their hand at massive, all-or-nothing 'pushes' - including two of the worst, the Marne and the Somme.

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May 31, 2010/ A.C. Childers/
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Book Review, first world war, June 2010
May 31, 2010

On the Bunny Slopes of Helicon

May 31, 2010/ Steve Donoghue

Steven Moore's big new book seeks to give an 'alternative history' to that most familiar of literary forms, the novel. But at what point does history become wishful thinking?

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May 31, 2010/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, June 2010, literary criticism, Steve Donoghue
May 31, 2010

Lost, Well-Lost

May 31, 2010/ Ed McFadden

In his study of the poetry and life of dissolute writer Alexander Trocchi, our intrepid corespondent follows him into the dark corners he described, and consorts with smoky ghosts.

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May 31, 2010/ Ed McFadden/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
June 2010, literary criticism, Poetry
May 31, 2010

“For a Long Time I Hated God…”

May 31, 2010/ Andrew Warner

Famed reporter Sebastian Junger spent months embedded with frontline troops in Afghanistan's most forbidding region and tells the stories of the men who fight there.

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May 31, 2010/ Andrew Warner/
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Book Review, June 2010
May 31, 2010

The Idea of Her

May 31, 2010/ Rohan Maitzen

Her stature has only grown over time, dominating bookstores, television, movie theaters, and now the Internet. She's Jane Austen, the world's least likely pop star.

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May 31, 2010/ Rohan Maitzen/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Video
Book Review, fiction, jane austen, June 2010, literary criticism, rohan maitzen
May 31, 2010

On the Scent: The Forbidden Fruit Note

May 31, 2010/ Elisa Gabbert

In this installment of our new feature, Elisa Gabbert sniffs out the now-unfashionable subject of 'fruity' scents -- wherefore their disgrace? and are the critics in error?

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May 31, 2010/ Elisa Gabbert/
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June 2010
May 31, 2010

Write, Repeat Redux

May 31, 2010/ John G. Rodwan, Jr.

In his new memoir, Christopher Hitchens regales his readers with one good story after another. But as John Rodwan shows, we've heard most of them before - lots of times.

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May 31, 2010/ John G. Rodwan, Jr./
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Book Review, christopher hitchens, fiction, John G- Rodwan Jr, June 2010
May 31, 2010

Like Some Chalice of Old Time

May 31, 2010/ Jeannie Vanasco

From Wyatt to Wordsworth to Bishop (and not forgetting that Shakespeare fellow), that waltz of verse, the sonnet, has survived and thrived. A new collection has some fresh faces.

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May 31, 2010/ Jeannie Vanasco/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Book Review, June 2010, literary criticism, Poetry
May 31, 2010

Wedding Plans Are Postponed Due to Patricide

May 31, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo

The new Hollywood extravaganza "Prince of Persia" is based on a video game with long history. Fitting, then, that our gamer-expert Phillip A. Lobo should review them both.

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May 31, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo/
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June 2010
May 31, 2010

Out in the Open

May 31, 2010/ Tomas Tranströmer

The forest in this season is a silent palace of abandoned rooms. /Only a few, precise sounds: as if someone were lifting twigs with tweezers; /as if, inside each tree-trunk, a hinge was creaking quietly.

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May 31, 2010/ Tomas Tranströmer/
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June 2010, Poetry
May 31, 2010

General Winter Had Help

May 31, 2010/ Karl Beckendorff

We often let Napoleon's failure to conquer Russia obscure the fact that Napoleon was then conquered by Russia. A new book restores the balance of power.

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May 31, 2010/ Karl Beckendorff/
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Book Review, June 2010
May 31, 2010

I Talk & Laugh & Listen

May 31, 2010/ Ian Manfred St. Cyr

A minor daughter of Scottish nobility was raised to the royalty of England at the turn of the 20th century and lived until she was 102. Her official biography chronicles an age.

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May 31, 2010/ Ian Manfred St. Cyr/
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Book Review, June 2010
May 31, 2010

Raggedy-Ass Marines

May 31, 2010/ Ben & Terry Soderquist

The Pacific Theater WWII battle against Japan - it will forever be 'the other war' - here takes center stage as the boredom and carnage are seen by five individual soldiers.

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May 31, 2010/ Ben & Terry Soderquist/
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Book Review, June 2010, world war II
May 31, 2010

Open Ear

May 31, 2010/ Brad Jones

In his 94 years, Artie Shaw had eight wives and eight Gold Records--the man and his conquests are on display again in Tom Nolan's new biography

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May 31, 2010/ Brad Jones/
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June 2010
May 31, 2010

Brain Vegans

May 31, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins

George Romero, master of the zombie movie, returns to theaters with Survival of the Dead, and our resident zombie expert Deirdre Crimmins has a front row seat.

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May 31, 2010/ Deirdre Crimmins/
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June 2010
May 31, 2010

Foxhole Allies

May 31, 2010/ Kevin Mullins

The Anarchist movement in America was the first to embrace some form of gay rights, but it was more a marriage of convenience than love at first sight.

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May 31, 2010/ Kevin Mullins/
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Book Review, June 2010, kevin mullins
May 31, 2010

The Trickster of Hyacinth Grove

May 31, 2010/ Tuc McFarland

America's ever-expanding suburbs have brought us right to the doorstep of the wild - and brought the wild to our doorstep - redefining both worlds in the process.

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May 31, 2010/ Tuc McFarland/
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Book Review, June 2010
May 31, 2010

June 2010 Issue

May 31, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly

"Garage 1" by Kyle Siddons

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June 2010
May 31, 2010

A Year with Short Novels: The Rooms of the Past

May 31, 2010/ Ingrid Norton

Ingrid Norton's Year with Short Novels continues in this installment about William Maxwell's problematically nostalgic novella So Long, See You Tomorrow

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May 31, 2010/ Ingrid Norton/
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A Year with Short Novels, fiction, Ingrid Norton, June 2010
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