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Inventory Stockholm swooning: 22 films where women fall in love with their kidnappers

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November 14, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Spalding Gray (Nell Casey, ed.): The Journals Of Spalding Gray

The late monologuist is presented in his own words, in a book whittled down from 5,000 pages of depressed self-accusation and sexual fixation.

November 2, 2011 | 12:02pm -
Book Review Michael Lewis: Boomerang

The author of Moneyball and The Big Short looks at troubled economies around the world and at home in this collection of polished-up Vanity Fair articles.

October 19, 2011 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Chuck Klosterman: The Visible Man

The second novel by the essayist behind Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs would have done just as well to leave the fiction trappings behind.

October 12, 2011 | 12:04pm -
Book Review David King: Death In The City Of Light

This look at infamous French serial killer Marcel Petiot benefits from newly released police information, and seems aimed at fans of The Devil In The White City.

October 12, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Book Review John Rodden: The Unexamined Orwell

A scholar’s seventh book on George Orwell makes some salient observations, but shows the strain of diminishing returns.

September 7, 2011 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Jeff Ryan: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America

This partially lively videogame history argues that Nintendo owes its success to Mario the plumber, but the entertaining start bogs down toward the end.

August 31, 2011 | 12:02pm -
Book Review Geoffrey Gray: Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper

It’s rare for writers to come to the strange story of D.B. Cooper with an agenda and a theory. This book skips both in favor of the broad overview.

August 24, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Book Review Simon Reynolds: Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction To Its Own Past

The author of Rip It Up And Start Again returns with a disgressive conversation-starter that asks whether pop music has hit a self-recycling dead end.

August 3, 2011 | 12:04pm -
Book Review Patrick McGilligan: Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure Of An American Director

The arresting subtitle says it all, as a veteran biographer argues that the director of Rebel Without A Cause never reached his true potential.

July 27, 2011 | 12:00pm -
Book Review Charles Drazin: French Cinema

An initially comprehensive, well-argued overview of French film dismissively undervalues everything since the end of the ’50s.

June 29, 2011 | 10:00am -
Book Review David Browne: Fire And Rain

An author delves into the “neglected” year of 1970 via the music of The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and others, but he could use a few more strong ideas.

June 23, 2011 | 12:00am -
Inventory The hits keep coming: 30 songs inspired by domestic violence

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June 20, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Ben Westhoff: Dirty South

A solid overview of Southern rap is at its most useful and convincing when it chronicles history instead of trying to promote specific rappers.

June 16, 2011 | 12:00am -
Inventory Hey look, a parade!: 15 films that use colorful city festivals as backdrops

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June 13, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Timothy S. Susanin: Walt Before Mickey

A nichey look at Walt Disney’s least-chronicled years turns into an exhaustive, unpalatable rota of dry facts.

June 2, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Rob Lowe: Stories I Only Tell My Friends

The West Wing actor and former Brat Packer highlights his early years in this memoir about growing up young, pretty, and famous among likeminded actors-to-be.

May 12, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Meg Howrey: Blind Sight

A teenager gets to know his famous TV-star dad in this coming-of-age novel.

April 14, 2011 | 12:00am -
Inventory Reunited and it feels so good: 16 acts that came back strong after a long hiatus or breakup

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April 4, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Keigo Higashino: The Devotion Of Suspect X

A lauded mystery proves to be half airport thriller, half cerebral, satisfying puzzle.

March 24, 2011 | 12:00am -
Inventory “You drink for the wrong reasons”: 20-plus functional pop-culture alcoholics

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March 14, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Alan Arkin: An Improvised Life

In this brief, light memoir, the veteran actor glosses over a lot of details, but his voice still comes across in the stories he chooses to tell.

March 10, 2011 | 12:00am -
Inventory "A well-orchestrated cabal could easily manage all of these simple things, children": 15 conspiracy movies that don’t fall apart at the end

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March 7, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Teju Cole: Open City

The end of this novel about a psychiatrist observing his surroundings takes a sharp turn that recasts what came before.

March 3, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Ferdinand von Schirach: Crime: Stories

After 45 weeks on Germany’s bestseller charts, a slim German anthology of short stories about crime and law makes it to America.

January 20, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Deborah Mitford: Wait For Me!

The latest memoir by one of Britain’s famed Mitford sisters largely looks over old, familiar material.

December 30, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory The turd in the caviar: 24 songs that almost derail great albums

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December 27, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Xiaoda Xiao: The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life

The writer of The Cave Man returns with short stories about his years of hard labor for wiping up a spill with a Mao poster.

December 23, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Adrian Tinniswood: Pirates Of Barbary

This historical look at real-life pirates is sometimes too dry and sometimes too gushy, but it works well when the pirates get to speak for themselves.

December 16, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory This film is questionably rated: 15 egregious MPAA screw-ups

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December 6, 2010 | 12:00am -

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