THE LAST WORD Brimstone on the E Train Liam Callanan We knew the trip was going to be an eye-opening experience. My eleven-year-old daughter and I, headed to Greece: she's besotted with...
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FICTION Exhibit A Liam Callanan By day thirty-seven, he'd broken dozens of rules, so what was one more? He went up and introduced himself to the woman in front of the Soyuz space capsule. "My...
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THE LAST WORD Shanghaied Liam Callanan It's late Saturday night in Shanghai. I'm in town for thirty-six hours as part of a whirlwind tour of China. A friend of a friend connected me to my tour...
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Liam Callanan Beginners’ Luck Rules of Civility Amor Towles Viking, $26.95, 352 pp. Ten Thousand Saints Eleanor Henderson Ecco, $26.99, 400 pp. In 1947, E. B. White published an unusual...
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THE LAST WORD The Club Liam Callanan For a few years during college, I worked at a summer camp on a campus outside Boston. It was a wonderful experience, but an intensive one, in part because I...
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Christmas Critics Liam Callanan Ilive in the Old West—that is to say, Milwaukee, where the quite sincerely named corporation Northwestern Mutual was founded one hundred and fifty years...
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A pril is the cruelest month for college English departments, and not just because we’re fans of T. S. Eliot (yes, he still gets taught, if occasionally—Shakespeare, too, if we can fit him...
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