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While reading the dreary news that America now reads four books per person per year (and a quarter of us apparently read nothing but ...

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Denis Johnson’s wildly ambitious new novel reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on a Vietnam classic, and yet he manages...

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Here I am (or a slightly younger version of) being presented to Tunku Abdul Rahman who was Malaysia's first Prime Minister and led the crowds in a rousing call of Merdeka! (freedo...

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So, now the fun part: putting the books on the new shelves.  Unfortunately, this is not quite as simple as it sounds. When th...

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"Southeast Missouri State University's manuscript by prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams is no longer unpublished. " "This summer...

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"Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War, on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP),...

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"Festival of Maps Chicago, which starts November 2, is organized by a board of high-powered map connoisseurs (former Rand McNally chairman...

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