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October 12, 2007

Quiet Storm

October 12, 2007/ David Meadow

Jazz composer Terence Blanchard’s score movingly complemented Spike Lee’s documentary When the Levees Broke. David Meadow evaluates whether the music stands alone in the album A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem for Katrina.

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Arts & Life
music, October 2007
October 11, 2007

Vain Offerings

October 11, 2007/ Steve Donoghue

In The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs reduced learning to the memorization of trivia; now in The Year of Living Biblically he reduces religious faith to growing a beard. Steve Donoghue, in turn, reduces A.J. Jacobs.

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Arts & Life, Politics & History
October 2007, Steve Donoghue
October 11, 2007

The ‘Ol Battle Axe

October 11, 2007/ Josh Lefkowitz

A poem by Josh Lefkowitz

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Poetry
October 2007, Poetry
September 30, 2007

Imagination as Witness

September 30, 2007/ Chad Reynolds

Chad Reynolds muses on the power of storytellers to model and even change reality: the harsh reality of Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip and Stephen Marche’s strange new world in Shining at the Bottom of the Sea.

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September 30, 2007/ Chad Reynolds/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Chad Reynolds, fiction, literary criticism, October 2007
September 30, 2007

Tribal Failings

September 30, 2007/ Greg Waldmann

Greg Waldmann wraps his head around The Suicide of Reason and comes away wishing Lee Harris hadn’t tried to talk reason off a ledge.

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September 30, 2007/ Greg Waldmann/
Politics & History
greg waldmann, history, October 2007, politics
September 30, 2007

One Encounter: On Packing Two Bags for Mexico

September 30, 2007/ Scott Esposito

In our regular feature, Scott Esposito expands on the sublime agony of filling a suitcase with an entire year’s worth of books.

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September 30, 2007/ Scott Esposito/
Arts & Life, One Encounter
October 2007, One Encounter
September 30, 2007

Richard Russo’s Mirror on America

September 30, 2007/ Sam Sacks

Thomaston, the setting of his new novel Bridge of Sighs, is the most diverse and complicated town Richard Russo has yet created. Sam Sacks navigates its vivid highways and byways.

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September 30, 2007/ Sam Sacks/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, October 2007, Sam Sacks
September 30, 2007

Cross-Dressing Septuagenarian Self-Medicating Skateboarders of Southeast Bergen County, Unite!

September 30, 2007/ Steve Donoghue

Steve Donoghue reviews pollster-guru Mark J. Penn’s Microtrends, a book that sheds light on the campaign mentality of our most powerful politicians. The weak of stomach must consider themselves duly warned.

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September 30, 2007/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2007, politics, Steve Donoghue
September 30, 2007

Peer Review: Kernels of Truth

September 30, 2007/ Hugh Merwin

In our regular feature, Hugh Merwin tucks in to the reviews of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which alternately acclaim and castigate the bellwether bestseller.

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September 30, 2007/ Hugh Merwin/
Politics & History
history, October 2007, peer review, politics
October 01, 2007

Absent Friends: I Could Wake Up in Nirvana and Laugh

October 01, 2007/ Steve Donoghue

In this regular feature, Steve Donoghue celebrates the life and letters of John Jay Chapman, an eloquent American wit now forgotten, whose writings once provoked and delighted an enthusiastic public.

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October 01, 2007/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Politics & History
Absent Friends, fiction, history, October 2007, Steve Donoghue
September 30, 2007

The Second End of the War

September 30, 2007/ Thomas J. Daly

The American Revolution’s neat conclusion at Yorktown is a familiar story from the history books. Thom Daly reads Perils of Peace as Thomas Fleming’s noble if flawed attempt to add more detail to our easy picture of events.

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September 30, 2007/ Thomas J. Daly/
Politics & History
American Revolution, history, October 2007, politics, Thomas j Daly
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