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                        IT would be too easy to read Martin Amis' slim book on Sept. 11 in a day and to dismiss it with a politically correct glare. The dozen essays, columns and reviews and two short stories in "The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom" are more illuminating than that, though deeply, sometimes self-indulgently flawed.]]></description>
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                        FROM its puzzling opening line ("The most common grammatical error is the lie"), there's an ominous vibe to Askold Melnyczuk's third novel, "The House of Widows," and the sense of unease lingers until the final sentence. It's a mysterious, masterfully taut story in which dread plays a prominent role.]]></description>
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                        MARCO POLO was only 17 when he departed for China in 1271 with his father, Niccolò, and his uncle, Maffeo. Those two merchants of Venice were known to the boy primarily as storytellers of their fabulous exploits, writes award-winning biographer and historian Laurence Bergreen, for they had been absent more than 16 years, Marco's entire childhood. The pair had followed trade routes east, encountered exotic countries and customs and survived many perils; they had even lived for a time at the court of Kublai Khan, the leader of  the Mongol Empire. Eventually they agreed to accompany his emissary west to the pope, vowing to return to Cambulac (Beijing) with several items the Great Khan had requested.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In this memoir, an Englishwoman falls in love with China and its food.    
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<title>In Urban Wilderness, Tracking Hoots in the Night</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/18park.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Humans are hard-wired to avoid dark places, especially the forest. There are a few people who not only defy evolution, but who are perfectly at home in Central Park after dusk.    
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<title>Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A reserved writer who has been compared to Emily Dickinson, Ms. Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation’s 16th poet laureate    
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<title>Essay: I&#x2019;m Y.A., and I&#x2019;m O.K.</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/books/review/Rabb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[When is a novel for adults really a novel for children? When a publisher and its marketing department decide it is.    
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<title>On Poetry: Soldier Boy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/books/review/Orr-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Frances Richey’s new collection of poems, “The Warrior,” focuses on her relationship with her son, a Green Beret who has served two tours in Iraq.    
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<title>Nonfiction Chronicle</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New books reviewed: “Boots on the Ground by Dusk,” by Mary Tillman; “April 4, 1968,” by Michael Eric Dyson; “Rapture Ready!,” by Daniel Radosh; and “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief,” by Ann Hood.    
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<title>Across the Universe: Amorality Tales</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Moorcock’s fantasy hero Elric is a kind of anti-Conan: he is a thin, longhaired albino with a darkly cynical worldview.    
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<title>Archive: Book Review Podcast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Virginia Heffernan on self-help books; David Orr on Frances Richey’s new poetry collection; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.    
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<title>The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: Mrs. Corbett&#x2019;s Request</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20serial-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Last week: George got some advice about his predicament from an old friend who is familiar with dealing with trouble.    
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<title>Newly Released</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What makes a beach book? It’s a crucial question for publishers — not to mention readers — this month.    
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<title>Mary at the Tattoo Shop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[She counted her money  
        before we went in,  
        avenue beside us anxious  
        with Friday-evening traffic.  
        Both fourteen, we shared a Newport,  
        its manila butt salty to our lips.  
        Inside, from a huge book  
        of designs and letter styles,  
        she chose to get &#8220;MARY&#8221;  
        in a black, Old English script&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Thirteen Hundred Rats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Songs of a Season</title>
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<description><![CDATA[for here or to go--  
        a glass mug, a paper cup--  
        life is fast, art slow  
                                    
           
        only a few years  
        before all that I am blows  
        free, subatomic  
                                    
           
        not for me that life  
        the careless joy of the dog  
        not for me that leap  
                                    
           
        how to say  
         beautiful weekend   
        in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>After Love</title>
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<description><![CDATA[He is watching the music with his eyes closed.   
        Hearing the piano like a man moving  
        through the woods thinking by feeling.   
        The orchestra up in the trees, the heart below,   
        step by step. The music hurrying sometimes,   
        but always returning to quiet, like the man   
        remembering and hoping. It&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mares go down for their evening feed  
                                                                                    into the meadow grass.  
        Two pine trees sway the invisible wind--  
                                                                                    some sway, some don&#8217;t sway.  
        The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight  
        For just a minute or so.  
        The mares have their heads on the ground&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Return of the Prodigal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Now comes summer, water clear, clouds heavy with weeping.  
        Tall grasses are silver-veined.  
        Little puddles of sunlight collect  
                                                                  in low places deep in the woods.  
           
        Lupine and paintbrush stoic in ditch weed,  
                                                           larch rust a smear on the mountainside.  
        No light on ridge line.  
        Zodiac pinwheels across the heavens&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Propofol</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Moly, mandragora, milk of oblivion:  
                    I said to Doctor Day, &#8220;You bring on night.&#8221;  
        &#8220;But then,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I bring day back again,&#8221;  
                     and smiled; except his smile was thin and slight.  
           
        I said to him, &#8220;Sleep and Death were brothers,  
                    you know. They carry off great Troy&#8217;s Sarpedon  
        in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Deep-Holes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sally packed devilled eggs--something she usually hated to take on a picnic, because they were so messy. Ham sandwiches, crab salad, lemon tarts--also a packing problem. Kool-Aid for the boys, a half bottle of Mumm&#8217;s for herself and Alex. She would have just a sip, because she&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Headstrong Historian</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many years after her husband had died, Nwamgba still closed her eyes from time to time to relive his nightly visits to her hut, and the mornings after, when she would walk to the stream humming a song, thinking of the smoky scent of him and the firmness of his&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Slow Drag Blues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t believe in sex  
            
        after marriage.  
               My wife does, just  
            
        not with me.  
               I plead the Fifth  
            
        of whiskey. I am close  
            
        to perfecting a theory   
               of forgettability.  
            
        Grief a dog  
               that keeps dogging me--  
            
        Good Grief,  
               I say. It&#8217;s me  
            
        he&#8217;s teaching to beg--  
            
        my next anniversary  
               is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Not My Fault &#xB7; John Lanchester: New Labour&#x27;s Terrible Memoirs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister's wife, his deputy and his bagman. The granddaddy of them all, Blair's own memoirs, are still to come. It is an unprecedented cascade of memoirs by prominent figures in a government which is, let's not forget, still in power. The phenomenon seemed odd when it began - Lance Price was called in front of a Parliamentary committee in December 2005 to account for his temerity in publishing his insider's account. By now we're used to it, and it's getting to the point where it would be more surprising for a New Labour insider not to publish a book explaining how he/she was both a. more at the centre of things than anybody had hitherto suspected while also b. not to blame for any of the stuff that went wrong.]]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Sean Wilsey Goes Slow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 2002, in the company of a dog named Charlie Chaplin and an architect named Michael Meredith, I set out to drive a 1960 Chevy Apache 10 pick-up truck, at 45 mph, from far west Texas to New York City: 2364 miles through desert, suburbs, forests, lake-spattered plains, mountains, farmland, more suburbs and the Holland Tunnel. I got to know both of my travelling companions during a brief period living in the town of Marfa, Texas, which is also where I found the truck, parked in front of the post office: boxy, banged up, covered in sky-blue house paint, the half-smashed windshield a lattice of stars and linear cracks, like a flag. A Mexican man in his sixties walked outside with his mail and drove it away. Then I found it parked out by the cemetery. Jesse Santesteban, the owner, showed me where he'd signed the engine compartment like an artist, and said I could take a closer look. The doors had handmade wooden armrests, and the seatbelts were fashioned of canvas and chain link. An orange shag carpet covered the floorboards. I offered him $1200 cash. He handed over a green plastic keychain that read 'Laugh, live, love and be happy!' and warned: 'Don't take it over 45 or it'll throw a rod.' A friend later explained: 'That's a polite way of saying the engine will explode.']]></description>
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<title>Men in White &#xB7; Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian McEwan!</title>
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<description><![CDATA['Netherland' is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred years ago on Manhattan Island as New Amsterdam, in what was then the territory of New Netherland. But 'netherland' could also mean any faraway place, as in those 'nether regions' of the city where Hans's teammates from the Staten Island Cricket Club spend their nights. (Hans spends his nights in Chelsea, a Manhattan neighbourhood hardly described in this book, notable for a high concentration of well-built gay men, new condominiums, art galleries, bank branches and large home-furnishing outlets.) 'Netherland' also has sinister overtones of Never Never Land, and sounds like a euphemism for Hades.]]></description>
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<title>Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke &#xB7; Jeremy Harding on the Dangers of Intervention</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n14/hard01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA['Humanitarian intervention' has little to show for its brief appearance on the international stage. It arrived too late for Rwanda, gestured helplessly at Bosnia and, at last, in 2003, it was discovered in the arms of Shock and Awe, where it died of shame. Only Kosovo Albanians, about 1.8 million people, still applaud the violent expulsion of Slobodan Milosevic from their province in 1999. However they are less sure about the legacy of intervention and the advantages of being a United Nations protectorate.]]></description>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Andrew O&#x27;Hagan on M. Night Shyamalan</title>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Thomas Jones: Spies Wanted</title>
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<title>Gazillions &#xB7; Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Karabas was gunned down in 1997. He and his mob had taken over the port city of Odessa as law and order disintegrated in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. One might call his reign a comprehensive protection racket. But, looked at in another way, Karabas became the only reliable source of authority and social discipline. He arbitrated the city's commercial disputes (10 per cent of net profits was his price); he kept the drug peddlers to one area of Odessa, and prevented the horrific people-smuggling in the harbour district from infecting the rest of the town. Using a bare minimum of thuggery, he kept the peace. Karabas seldom carried a gun. Everyone looked up to him, and levels of violence stayed lower in Odessa than in other Russian and Ukrainian cities. His murderers were probably Chechens hired to break Odessa's grip on the local oil industry, a grip coveted by Ukraine's then president, Leonid Kuchma, who 'during his ten years in power . . . presided over the total criminalisation of the Ukrainian government and civil service'.]]></description>
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<title>An Element of Unfairness &#xB7; Ross McKibbin on the Great Education Disaster</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The modern history of English secondary education begins with the 1944 Education Act, usually known as the Butler Act. It was, for better and worse, the most important piece of education legislation of the 20th century, but was expected to reform an educational system already deeply divisive and inequitable. In some ways it promoted the hopes of wartime democracy; in others it betrayed them. It raised the school-leaving age to 15 and made secondary education universal and free. It equalised the payment of teachers in all state secondary schools and devised procedures by which nearly all the religious elementary schools were incorporated into the state system. It didn't specify what kind of secondary education local authorities should establish, and as a result they fell back on what already existed and what conventional opinion thought appropriate: grammar schools for the academically inclined, junior technical schools for those with superior technical aptitudes and secondary moderns for those of a 'practical' turn of mind.]]></description>
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<title>Kick over the Scenery &#xB7; Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When an art form or genre once dismissed as kids' stuff starts to get taken seriously by gatekeepers - by journals, for example, such as the one you are reading now - respect doesn't come smoothly, or all at once. Often one artist gets lifted above the rest, his principal works exalted for qualities that other works of the same kind seem not to possess. Later on, the quondam genius looks, if no less talented, less solitary: first among equals, or maybe just first past the post. That is what happened to rock music in the late 1960s, when sophisticated critics decided, as Richard Poirier put it, to start 'learning from the Beatles'. It is what happened to comics, too, in the early 1990s, when the Pulitzer Prize committee invented an award for Art Spiegelman's Maus. And it has happened to science fiction, where the anointed author is Philip K. Dick.]]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Jenny Diski: On Not Liking South Africa</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/disk01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The 'you can't understand until you've lived there' argument had kept me from visiting South Africa quite effectively. If being there would make me understanding of apartheid, I preferred to stay away. But now it had to be a very different place, 18 years after Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, 14 years on from the day when South Africa had its first democratic election. I was going to be there anyway - Cape Town was the end point of another journey - and I thought I'd spend a couple of weeks and look around; be a regular tourist in a place where minds had been changed.]]></description>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Michael Wood on David Lean</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/wood01_.html</link>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Daniel Soar: David Davis v. Miss Great Britain</title>
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<title>Letters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 14]]></description>
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<title>Table of contents</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 14]]></description>
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<title>Kathryn Hughes: Summer non-fiction round-up 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Summer reading: Kathryn Hughes picks the new books that will take you to faraway places]]></description>
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<title>A life in writing: Tobias Wolff</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tobias Wolff: 'I hate cruelty. I hate a bully ... There's something in my president, that hectoring way, that reminds me of my stepfather']]></description>
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<title>Rereading: Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues]]></description>
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<title>New writing success for Salman Rushdie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[July 18: The bookshop trestle table clearly ain't big enough for both of the authors claiming a book signing record]]></description>
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<title>Theakston&#x27;s Crime award goes to mainstream first novel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[July 18: Crime novel panel breaks the wall between genre and mainstream fiction by rewarding Costa winner Stef Penny]]></description>
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<title>Kay Ryan named US poet laureate</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2291299,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[July 17: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets]]></description>
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<title>Clare Wigfall wins BBC National Short Story award</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2291112,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[July 16: The Numbers, an eerie tale of a remote Scottish island, has added £15,000 to Wigfall's bank balance ]]></description>
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<title>The Suspicions of Mr Whicher wins Samuel Johnson prize</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/samueljohnson2008/story/0,,2290991,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[July 15: Kate Summerscale's book of murder and melodrama takes the £30,000 non-fiction award]]></description>
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<title>Actor plans to film long-lost Garc&#xED;a M&#xE1;rquez screenplay</title>
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<description><![CDATA[July 15: A Mexican actor plans to film Frontera, a long-lost Gabriel García Márquez screenplay ]]></description>
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<title>Obituary: Chingiz Aitmatov</title>
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<description><![CDATA[July 15: A Kyrgyz writer, his books were translated into 150 languages]]></description>
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<title>Iain Banks on how practising with SF led to The Wasp Factory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iain Banks on how practising with SF led to The Wasp Factory]]></description>
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<title>Kate Clanchy&#x27;s workshop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you've lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen]]></description>
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<title>Review: Divine Magnetic Lands by Timothy O&#x27;Grady</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Review: Divine Magnetic Lands by Timothy O'GradyTimothy O'Grady covers political and cultural ground on his trip through the States. By Chris Petit]]></description>
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<title>Summer reading: Nicholas Lezard on classics to read at the beach</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nothing can beat a classic when you're on the beach, says Nicholas Lezard]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Return by Victoria Hislop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Review: The Return by Victoria HislopA tale of flamenco, family and passion is played out in modern-day and 1930s Spain. By Rachel Hore]]></description>
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<title>Are You Ready For The Summer? Camp, That Is</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new book titled Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies is an ode to the time of year when kids swarm to camps with appropriated Native American names and sweaty cabins filled with bunk beds and the spoils of independence.]]></description>
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<title>Carter&#x27;s New Thriller Mixes Murder, Love And Politics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Novelist Stephen Carter, who is also a professor at the Yale Law School, says his latest novel, Palace Council, is a thriller, a conspiracy, a love story and historical fiction. And the process of writing it was "utterly exhausting."]]></description>
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<title>Books That Knock It Out Of The Park</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Watching baseball and reading books have a lot in common. Both are made for the summer, require some investment of time and &mdash; the best part &mdash;  involve a great deal of sitting. Alan Schwarz details his three favorite books on America's favorite game.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Dark Side&#x27; III: Is Rendition Still Taking Place?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The policy and program still exist, but whether they are actually being used seems doubtful, says The New Yorker's Jane Mayer. She also tells Madeleine Brand why one man water boarded himself to find whether it was torture.]]></description>
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<title>Celebrating A Dutch Mystery Writer&#x27;s Varied Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mystery novelist Janwillem Van de Wetering was once a motorcycle gang member in South Africa, an aspiring monk in Kyoto, Japan and a policeman in Amsterdam. The Dutch author of The Hollow-Eyed Angel, The Blond Baboon and The Maine Massacre died July 4 at the age of 77.]]></description>
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<title>Author Transforms Himself From Schlub To Stud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[They may be considered clumsy and unattractive, but one author discovers that schlubs aren't necessarily losers.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Wambaugh: The Writer Who Redefined LAPD</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wambaugh, who spent years on the force, wrote the best-selling book The Onion Field in three months during a leave of absence from the department. Over the decades, his realistic and multidimensional portrayals of L.A. cops have helped tranform their public image.]]></description>
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<title>Excerpt: &#x27;Hollywood Crows&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Excerpt From: 'Hollywood Crows' by Joseph Wambaugh]]></description>
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<title>Americans Say Oui, Oui To Foreign Graphic Novels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Americans don't buy a lot of foreign novels, but go to any neighborhood bookstore and you'll find whole shelves devoted to international comics. In fact, more than half of the graphic novels sold in the U.S. are foreign-language imports.]]></description>
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<title>How Sept. 11 Redefined Executive Power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vice President Dick Cheney is the "most important person in America, that people have never heard of," says Jane Mayer, author of the book, The Dark Side. Cheney called the shots, she says in her expose of the Bush administration's role in detainee torture scandals.]]></description>
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<title>Searching For Bodies In Chelsea Cain&#x27;s Portland</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Crime writer Chelsea Cain sees danger lurking in the most pastoral corners of the polite Northwest city she calls home. Ketzel Levine dares to search for skeletons with the writer.]]></description>
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<title>Paul Goldstein&#x27;s Patently Thrilling Legal Drama</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Patent Lie, the new novel by Paul Goldstein, trumps John Grisham's work in every way &mdash; character, setting, plot and prose &mdash; and gives readers interested in the drama of a high-value legal case a great reward for their attention.]]></description>
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<title>Tracing Torture Scandals Into The White House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How did the Bush Administration authorize extreme interrogation techniques? In Jane Mayer's book, The Dark Side, she explores the Bush Administration's role in detainee torture scandals.]]></description>
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<title>A Manifesto For Young Republicans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party has often been stereotyped as the party of wealthy, old white men. Conservative writers Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam think that can change. Their new book, Grand New Party, offers a vision for expanding the Republican base.]]></description>
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<title>A Wickedly Wild West In Opium-Fueled &#x27;Missy&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Almost every word of Chris Hannan's debut novel is a toothy treat. The rollicking tale of Dol McQueen is so festooned with 1862-era Wildly Western jargon it's tempting to read the whole thing aloud &mdash; in a brogue.]]></description>
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<title>Inside Steve&#x27;s Brain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[cgjherr writes "There are management insights to be learned from Steve Jobs? You're nuts. The only things you can learn from Jobs is how to drive people nuts. Or at least, that's what I thought up until I read 'Inside Steve's Brain.' Turns out, there are things to learn from Steve's obsessive perfectionism. Certainly I wouldn't copy every aspect of Jobs' management style. Doing that will likely get you fired, or at least reprimanded, in most companies. But there is some stuff to be learned from how Jobs designs products and analyses the market, and that's the view that Leander Kahney gives us access to." Keep reading for the rest of Jack's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[lamaditx writes "There is a good chance that you have heard about "Web 2.0" &mdash; the buzz-word coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2005. You will find several reviews of books about this topic on Slashdot. These cover mainly technical aspects of implementation whereas this book introduces the strategical thinking behind the whole Web 2.0 movement... Web 2.0 is so much more than the technology.' The table of contents is available from O'Reilly, together with a chapter preview. The book does not come with any extras but includes the usual free 45 days access to the book on Safari. When reading a book I usually flip through it quickly to get an impression for it, in this case there are three things which I noted right away." Keep reading for the rest of Adrian's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Head First C#</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "For computer programmers who do not have a solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP), learning the C# programming language can be rather challenging, even if they have experience with C or C++, which at least would give them a head start over non-C programmers. Any developer in this situation may well want to begin the learning process with a book that aims to teach both OOP and C# in as gentle a manner as possible, with plenty of patient explanations and illustrative diagrams &mdash; such as those found in the book Head First C# by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Dungeons and Desktops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games chronicles the rise and fall of the Computer RPG industry, from Akalabeth to Zelda and everything in between. While the bulk of the book is devoted to the genre's 'Golden Age' in the late '80s and early '90s, author Matt Barton explores the entire history of CRPGs, from their origins in the mid '70s to the very recent past. While not entirely comprehensive, the book covers not only the major players and award-winners, but also dozens of obscure 'also-ran' as well as notable games in related genres." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Google Apps Hacks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "It seems that it wasn't long ago that Google was just a search company. The number of on-line products that fly under the Google moniker, today, is impressive. Google has moved well beyond its office-suite-like applications and excelled with everything from mapping to blogging to 3-D drawing. Google Apps Hacks is a new book from O'Reilly, published in conjunction with their Make magazine. This volume presents the reader with 141 hacks in an attempt to get the most out of a wide array of Google's on-line applications. The result is a quick ride that is rather fun &mdash; and while a bit shallow at times, it provides a great overview of just how much is available out there." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Terminal Chaos</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "While Terminal Chaos should be shelved in the current events or business section of a bookstore, it could also be placed in the modern crime section. After reading it, one gets the impression that the state of air traffic today could only come due to criminal neglect or mischief. If one looks at pictures of airline flights from the 1960s, you will see well-dressed passengers enjoying their flight. In 2008, barely a day goes by without an incident of air rage, from irate passengers in the terminal, to those in the air causing flights to be diverted. Today's airline traveler considers it a near miracle if his flight arrives on time with his baggage." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Principles of Project Management</title>
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<description><![CDATA[zedguy writes "Ask someone what 'project management' is and you're liable to get a few blank stares &mdash; it's one of those fields people have heard of, but probably have problems pinning down a definition. So that is what the first section of the book does: provides a definition that can be summed up as applying tools and skills to complete a project. That then leads to what exactly is a "project": a set of tasks with a time-frame and goal of somehow adding value. So yes, the introduction does involve a fair bit of terminology that isn't going to be familiar to many readers coming from a coder's background, but there's a helpful appendix that lays out many of the terms. Just as important, the introduction explains what project management is not, some of the misconceptions and why it's good to know." Keep reading for the rest of Zoltan's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security</title>
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<description><![CDATA[jsuda writes "At least a half-dozen times in the book 'Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security' the authors state that there is a misconception that the Macintosh computer is immune from security problems. That allegation may explain why there are very few books published (and nearly none in recent years) about security for the Mac. This book is meant to change all that. The authors acknowledge that the Mac OS X software has had little of the security problem experience of Windows (and other operating systems, to a lesser extent) but they spend 455 pages detailing exactly where and how the Macintosh platform is (or may be) vulnerable." Read below for the rest of Jsuda's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing is the followup to Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, and the second book written by members of the Game Writers' Special Interest Group of the 14,000 member strong IGDA. The book covers much of the same terrain as its predecessor, but offers a tighter focus on some specific points, covering more technical (as in technique) details rather than broader narrative theory; if the first book was a Google Map, this one would be the Street View." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout is an interesting new project, a graphic novel being published by O'Reilly. What makes it interesting is not just that this is a rather new direction for O'Reilly but that this is, to my knowledge, a rather unique publication in that it seeks to educate teenage youth about an array of issues ranging from privacy, free software, security and the impact of politics on personal freedom as it relates to the use of technology. Making topics like that exciting, and understandable to a young person may sound like a tall order, and I think it is." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "Security policies are like fiber, that is, the kind you eat. Everyone agrees that fiber is good for you, but no one really wants to eat it. So too with information security policies. They are sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with them. And in many firms, they are not even trained in what they have to do. But failure to have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an organization." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Joomla! A User&#x27;s Guide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the content management systems (CMSs) from which a Web developer can choose for creating a new Web site, Joomla is generally considered to be one of the top choices -- partly because an experienced developer can create an attractive site faster with Joomla than with the majority of other CMSs. However, Joomla's online documentation leaves much to be desired, as is true for most if not all CMSs. Intermediate and especially new developers need a clear and comprehensive resource that can explain the terminology, customization, administrative panel, and other aspects of Joomla. A promising candidate is a book written by Barrie M. North, titled Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Running Xen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Martinjak writes "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization was published by Prentice Hall, and authored by Jeanna N. Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wenjin Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, and Brendan Johnson. The book, which will be referred to as simply Running Xen, was a great resource on Xen and virtualization from the administration side. A wide range of topics was covered from installing Xen all the way up to managing virtual resources, including migrating guest environments. Overall, the explanations were concise and understandable; while the information was presented in a straightforward manner. Running Xen was definitely a useful resource for administering systems with Xen." Keep reading for the rest of David's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Visual Communication in Digital Design</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "I remember the first time I saw a program I had written after the interface had been revamped by a designer. I had been pretty happy with what I had made. It worked very well and met the client's requirements. It was extremely functional and I thought it didn't look bad either. But when I saw the new interface, not functionally different, just so much better looking, I was really blown away. My application had gone from useful to cool. (That might be a slight exaggeration, it was still just a database app but it sure looked cool to me.) Since then I've learned to primarily leave the user interface work to the experts in that arena, and I stick to the getting the functionality in place. But sometimes I don't have the luxury of a design team at my disposal. Or when I do, I still need to be able to talk to them and discuss what is going on. I found Dr. Ji Young Park's new book "Visual Communication in Design" to be a friendly and accessible introductory primer in visual design." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Definitive ANTLR Reference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joe Kauzlarich writes "Finally, someone has done us all the great service of publishing a book about the second most well-known compiler compiler, Terence Parr's Antlr, and it was written, moreover, by Parr himself and published as part of the somewhat-usually-reliable Pragmatic Bookshelf series. Take note, while it requires a JVM to run, Antlr is not just for Java developers; it generates compilers in Python, Ruby, C, C++, C# and Objective-C. Also note that this book is more than just an elaborated man-page; it is also an excellent introduction to the concepts of compiler and parser design." Keep reading for the rest of Joe's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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