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Opening minds
Opening minds Peter D. Kramer knows what makes us tick Yes, there has been life after Listening to Prozac. Dr. Peter D. Kramer, Providence psychiatrist and author of the 1993 best seller, has written...
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Details in Hell
Details in Hell A National Guardsman reports home General Sherman told us war is hell; John Crawford fills us in on the specifics. No novice to Army service, Crawford spent three years with the 101st...
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Dante, dude
Dante, dude The Commedia finds a 21st-century vernacular Dear Vinny,I gotta tell you that the last volume of that surfer Dante thing has come out and it’s really somethin’. You remember that weird...
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From Columbus to Portnoy
From Columbus to Portnoy The education of Philip Roth For those of us who devour every new book by Philip Roth — and he churns them out almost at the rate of one a year — the experience of trekking...
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Waves of mutilation
Waves of mutilation Davy Rothbart’s Lone Surfer It’s hard to disagree with Arthur Miller. Right on the cover of Davy Rothbart’s debut collection of short stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas,...
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Social science
Social science Zadie Smith’s beauty seminar The social novel has enjoyed a comeback among American readers in recent years. For their part, after generations of interior voyaging, novelists who want...
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Tales of a Quitter
Tales of a Quitter Thumbing through Harvey Pekar’s back pages Oftentimes a comic-book hero will appear fully formed in the first issue; only later is his or her back story revealed. Batman, for...
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The gold standard
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Dowsed
Dowsed Ricky Moody has a laugh Rick Moody, past master of tales of suburban alienation (Garden State, The Ice Storm), has made an ambitious leap into another genre — a sprawling, overstuffed satiric...
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Cris du cœur
Cris du cœur Two writers remember New Orleans Uproot a city of artists and you will hear their cries, and New Orleans was nothing if not a gathering place for creatives. The musicians have been heard...
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