A new biography gives Kurt Vonnegut his due.
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Good Night, Sweet Prince
… in which the tooth fairy comes and goes.
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Are You Pink- or Blue-Brained?
Despite what popular psychology says, there’s little evidence boys and girls learn differently.
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The Family Album
A journal of grief and aging, Blue Nights is missing Joan Didion’s razor-sharp prose.
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Batman the Gentrifier
In real-life, the superhero’s do-gooding would push all the poor people out of Gotham.
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A Jew of No Religion
An Israeli novelist gets a legal writ of divorce between Jewish ethnicity and religion.
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The Theory of Power
Many economists are offering a robust challenge to laissez-faire, but to prevail they’ll have to win in the court of public opinion.
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Cleaning Up the Capital
Lawrence Lessig wants to change the corrupt campaign-finance system. His solution, though, is wanting.
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Imagining Malcolm X
Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X is a significant and poignant cultural event because of its subject, its purpose, and the recent tragic death of its author, the founder of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable worked on this biography for more than two decades, struggling in recent years with […]
