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July 14, 2008
A History of Hooch

The Greeks worshipped it; the Aztecs were a little more conflicted.

June 2, 2008
The Sex Lives of Others

Robert Olen Butler trawls the outer limits (Nixon, Santa Claus) of erotic imagination.

May 26, 2008
Dada’s Boy

A reexamination of Chris Farley’s tragically short career.

May 12, 2008
Anarchy and Semicolons

A novel in which a punctuation mark could almost be called destiny.

April 21, 2008
Kids’ Lit Gets Graphic

Two surprise best sellers may herald a young-adult revolution.

April 7, 2008
Preventive Treatment

Jessica Queller’s written her life into a half-dozen teen TV shows. But how to handle a double mastectomy?

March 31, 2008
Peace Offensive

Nicholson Baker gives the Good War a bad rap.

February 18, 2008
Losing His Voices

Peter Carey, genius of literary mimicry, comes down with laryngitis.

February 11, 2008
Hair of the Doggerel

Is a novel about werewolves/written in verse/necessarily cursed?

January 14, 2008
You Are the One

In her new WWII novel, A.L. Kennedy survives her own obstacles (chief among them, writing a WWII novel).

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