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Mar 1, 2004

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Michael Dobbs' engaging, lively Saboteurs chronicles the real-life tragicomic misadventures of the kind of Nazis Hogan and his heroes would...

Mar 29, 2002

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During the Bosnian conflict, as regions left unconquered by Serb nationalists became fewer and farther between, the U.N., with little regard for...

Mar 29, 2002

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Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky

This may be an odd complaint to level at a book called Salt: A World History, but Mark Kurlansky's 450-page global tour has too much salt...

Jan 27, 2003

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Samaritan
Richard Price

Forever tattooed by his hardscrabble upbringing in a Bronx housing project, author and screenwriter Richard Price (The Wanderers) continues...

Mar 29, 2002

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One of the liveliest ongoing debates has revolved around the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, a debate that intensified with the...

Mar 29, 2002

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Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martínez (Helen Lane, Translator)

The story of Eva Perón's ascent from a childhood spent in the slums of Argentina to her fame as a prominent B-movie actress—and final...

Apr 19, 2005

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Saturday
Ian McEwan

Whenever authors attempt "life in a day" novels like Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway or James Joyce's Ulysses, they have trouble...

Mar 29, 2002

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In 1996, while promoting the movie Striptease, Demi Moore spoke to Barbara Walters about stripping. Spewing a string of Pagliaisms and...

Nov 2, 2005

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Saving Fish From Drowning
Amy Tan

A bunch of Americans in Asia are anything but innocents abroad in Amy Tan’s latest novel.

May 3, 2004

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Sayonara, Gangsters
Genichiro Takahashi

Chip Kidd's design for the first English translation of Genichiro Takahashi's award-winning 1982 debut novel Sayonara, Gangsters seems...

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