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Book Review Daniel Lanois: Soul Mining: A Musical Life

In this memoir, the famed producer of U2 and Peter Gabriel chokes on his own self-admiration and love of trivia.

December 2, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Michael Caine: The Elephant To Hollywood

The busiest actor in the film business offers up a third memoir, in which he retracts the candor and directness of the first two.

December 2, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Robert D. Kaplan: Monsoon

An American security and defense-policy expert offers a detailed look at what the 21st century is likely to bring to the country and the world.

December 2, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory Another little baby child is born in the ghetto: 22 stories with repeating thematic cycles

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November 29, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory Lights! Camera! Deconstruction!: 19 movies that double as movie criticism

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November 15, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Norman Lebrecht: Why Mahler?

An examination of how the Austrian composer "changed our world" ranges from enlightening to infuriating.

November 4, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall: Ghosted

This scattershot first novel would work better if it figured out whether it wants to be an airport thriller, a quirky story about a suicide-note ghostwriter, or something else entirely.

October 28, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Jonathan Rosenbaum: Goodbye Cinema Hello Cinephilia

A respected film critic gathers 30 years' worth of writings to discuss how the Internet age has changed the field, for good and bad.

October 21, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Brock Clarke: Exley

You don't need to love Frederick Exley to appreciate this novel about a boy obsessed with him, but it might help.

October 7, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory I hate my sister: 18 songs about complicated sibling relationships

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September 20, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Darin Strauss: Half A Life

The author of Chang And Eng and More Than It Hurts You dives into memoir, but winds up too diffident to make any firm statements about how accidentally killing a girl affected his life.

September 16, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Richard Poplak: The Sheikh’s Batmobile

This study of American culture infiltrating the Muslim world finds a lot of fascinating details and way too many overstrained metaphors.

September 9, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Yunte Huang: Charlie Chan: The Untold Story

A Chinese immigrant looks into the history of detective Charlie Chan, and discovers he's more teaching tool than hoary caricature.

September 2, 2010 | 12:00am -
Interview Radiohead drummer Phil Selway

Going solo doesn't have to be scary.

September 2, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Tom Grimes: Mentor: A Memoir

One of Frank Conroy's protégés talks about his relationship with Conroy and his own stalled writing career. In the process, he produces his best book yet.

August 26, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Suzanne Rivecca: Death Is Not An Option

A debut short-story collection explores the same kind of character over and over, sometimes brilliantly.

July 29, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory Death be not a bummer: 23 cheerful ditties about murder, death, and the apocalypse

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July 19, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Nathan Ward: Dark Harbor

This history of the turf wars over the New York waterfront covers ground that inspiredOn The Waterfront, but with more veracity and less visceral interest.

July 1, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Martin Solares: The Black Minutes

This debut crime novel operates on parallel timelines, with a lot of the solid detail that makes pulp fun.

May 27, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Christopher de Bellaigue: Rebel Land

Guilt-stricken after reporting too shallowly on Turkish history, a journalist decided to get the real story, even if it took years.

March 11, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Matt Labash: Fly Fishing With Darth Vader

This series of journalistic profiles and pieces, mostly from The Weekly Standard, struggles with bias and irrelevance.

March 4, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Alan Allport: Demobbed

This study of soldiers returning from World War II returns voices to the voiceless and shrugs off some myths about the era.

February 25, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Steven Amsterdam: Things We Didn’t See Coming

A post-apocalyptic debut connection comes up with a plausible end of the world, but forgets to give it structure.

February 11, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory That’s cancertainment!: 25 great songs, books, films, albums, and TV shows in which cancer plays a major role

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January 25, 2010 | 12:00am -
Book Review Benoit Denizet-Lewis: American Voyeur

This reportage on the lives of the young, sexy, and current lacks a certain responsible insight and experience.

January 14, 2010 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review The xx: xx

Electro-popping twosome drops a dazzling debut.

January 5, 2010 | 12:00am -
Inventory The waiting is the hardest part: 32 of our most anticipated 2010 entertainments

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December 28, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda For The Arab World

Little has been written about the Nazi attempt to bring Arabs into the anti-Semitic fold during World War II, but this scholarly guide goes too deep and not broad enough.

December 10, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Joshua Clover: 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About

What do a Jesus Jones song and an essay about the end of history have to do with each other? This academic work finds out.

December 2, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Stephen Cox: The Big House

A look at the history and theory of prisons isn't always as enlightening as it wants to be.

December 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

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