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Mar 27, 2008

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Obedience
Will Lavender

Will Lavender's debut novel offers characters and readers a conundrum, as students try to solve a logic problem before its subject dies.

Jun 14, 2004

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Oblivion: Stories
David Foster Wallace

Few of the characters in Oblivion have an easy time getting through the day. More self-aware than might be healthy, the tangled souls...

Mar 29, 2002

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Off Keck Road
Mona Simpson

Though fiction most commonly deals with outsized characters and events, the arcs of ordinary lives are usually governed by small, fleeting,...

Dec 13, 2004

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Oh, Play That Thing
Roddy Doyle

When searching for explanations as to why Roddy Doyle's Oh, Play That Thing—the second installment of the trilogy that began with the...

May 6, 2002

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In previous books like Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot, And Other Observations and Why Not Me? The Inside Story Of The Making And...

Mar 29, 2002

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Oink: Heaven's Butcher
John Mueller

Oink is a genetically engineered pig-man fighting for his life and dignity in a future Orwellian dystopia. Why should anyone care? Well, for one...

Mar 29, 2002

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The Rolling Stones used to be introduced as "the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world." That phrasing may have seemed audacious...

Oct 19, 2005

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On Beauty
Zadie Smith

Family dynamics, racial politics, and aesthetics all come into play in the latest from the author of White Teeth.

Jul 6, 2007

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On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Two honeymooners in 1962 approach their first night together with loaded trepidation in the latest from the author of Atonement.

Mar 29, 2002

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The American attitude toward therapy is a strange one. Alternately demonized and bragged about, the habit of dealing with problems through a...

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