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Books E Pluribus NixonA sweeping new social history portrays Richard Nixon as the president his fratricidal country deserved—and perhaps the best we could have hoped for. By Ross Douthat. Books The Last LaughFlann O'Brien, a comic genius who died young, is finally getting his due. By Joseph O’Neill. Books Arrested DevelopmentIn Cyril Connolly’s classic memoir, the young grow rotten before they are ripe. By Christopher Hitchens. Books Cover to CoverA guide to additional releases: the other Freud; Churchill's valets; Charles Baxter's latest; and more. |
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Two—Make That Three—Cheers for the Chain BookstoresBarnes & Noble, Borders, and Books-A-Million have enormously enriched the nation's cultural life. (July/August 2001) Denis Johnson's Tree of SmokeIt’s the most critically acclaimed novel of the fall. And it’s astonishingly bad. By B. R. Myers (December 2007) Ian McEwan's On Chesil BeachIan McEwan’s new novella evokes his homeland’s natural beauty and the straitened sexual manners of the early 1960s. By Christopher Hitchens (July/August 2007) A Reader's ManifestoB. R. Myers attacks the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose. (July 2001) The Simple Art of MurderHow to bring a far-fetched story down to earth. By Raymond Chandler (February 1922) In Defense of C.S. LewisGregg Easterbrook takes stock of accusations that "the Chronicles of Narnia ... are racist, sexist, and overbearing about religion." (October 2001) Unprintable"It has perhaps never been true in Europe, it is no longer true in America, that it is 'easy to distinguish art from pornography.'" (July 1923) The History of Children's Books"There have been children's stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Children's books, however, are a late growth of literature." In 1888 an Atlantic contributor surveyed the development of books for children. |
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Books ‘I Am Joan Crawford’Through sheer force of will, Hollywood’s most infamous single mother constructed a persona seductive, repellent, and almost impossible not to watch. By Thomas Mallon. Books Keeping a Civil TongueAn English critic decries the decline of his language—and his civilization. By B. R. Myers. Books A Revolutionary SimpletonA new account of Ezra Pound’s early years reveals his volatile genius—and prefigures the madness that would claim him. By Christopher Hitchens. Books Cover to CoverA guide to additional releases: the Dante club; reconsidering Lincoln-Douglas; the myth of the Delta blues. Books Tales Out of SchoolHow a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools. By Sandra Tsing Loh. |
Books Tales Out of SchoolHow a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools. By Sandra Tsing Loh. Books The 2,000-Year-Old PanicA newly reissued novel evokes the charms and hatreds of a lost world—and the enduring contradictions of anti-Semitism. By Christopher Hitchens. Books Cover to CoverA guide to additional releases: a prodigy's rise and fall; Gordimer's and Coetzee's latest fiction; Chicago's greatest brothel. Books Cover to CoverA guide to additional releases: Nureyev's life; South Africa's fractious past; Red Lobster as muse. |
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