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 Vol. 139 Issue 021 (December 7 2012)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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letters Léon Bloy, the peril of pluralism PRICKLY PAUPER No one who has read Léon Bloy would dispute what Harold Bordwell writes in his article "A Beggar to the End" (November 9). The article...
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Gaza Redux
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From the Editors Gaza Redux With Israel again bombarding Gaza and gathering troops for another potentially devastating incursion into the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave, it is tempting to...
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The Appraisal Czar
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The Appraisal Czar WHEN DISASTER STRIKES, KENNETH FEINBERG DECIDES WHO GETS WHAT When disaster strikes, especially on a massive scale (think oil spills,...
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Four More Years
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Pippenger, Nathan
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SHORT TAKE Nathan Pippenger Four More Years WHAT CAN OBAMA DO WITH THEM? The cheering supporters at his victory rally may still be hoarse, and his inauguration is three frosty months away. But...
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Justice
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Lindeman, Jack
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JUSTICE You tell me the day is not now and I try to enliven my cough to make sure I'm alive. That's how noise is, and how a hundred violins playing in unison can elicit applause. I know how...
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Train Of The Unknowns
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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ARTICLES Train of the Unknowns For Many, Crossing the Border Isn't as Hard as Getting to It Joseph Sorrentino It's estimated that between 400,000 and 500,000 migrants travel through Mexico every...
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A Jazz Mass?
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Corbin, Ian Marcus
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A Jazz Mass? The Vexing Legacy of Mary Lou Williams Ian Marcus Corbin Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Mary Lou Williams, the jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. There...
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Cloud Atlas
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Thin Air 'CLOUD ATLAS' David Mitchell's virtuosic novel Cloud Atlas enfolds six plots into one theme: No man is an island but neither is any era. In all times, in all...
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Christmas Critics
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Barry, Dan
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BOOKS Christmas Critics Dan Barry The books beside my bed, stacked like bricks laid by an addled mason, suggest that I possess either a broad curiosity or an inability to focus. Where were we? Oh...
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Christmas Critics
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Wilson, John
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John Wilson Every once in a while, a book appears as if out of nowhere, uncanny in its authority, combining the shock of the new with the shock of recognition. Michael Robbins's Alien vs. Predator...
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Christmas Critics
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Hampl, Patricia
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Patricia Hampl The "rise of the memoir" (the usual descriptor, making autobiographical writing a monster lunging from the deep) has been vexing critics for the past quarter-century. Why are all...
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Christmas Critics
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Brownstein, Rachel M.
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Rachel M. Brownstein Since I am lucky enough to spend a lot of time as a teacher rereading long classic novels like Middle-march, I often turn for pleasure to shorter contemporary takes on the...
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Christmas Critics
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Baumann, Paul
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Paul Baumann It is hard to imagine two more exotic, enchanting, difficult, and yet different childhoods than those described in Alexandra Styron's Reading My Father (Scribner, $15, 285 pp.) and...
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Two Poems
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Poreba, Elizabeth
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Two Poems by Elizabeth Poreba A SIMPLE YOUNG WOMAN WHO MARRIED A CARPENTER There's the mother stunned and bleeding The men talk above her She knew what to do babies were ordinary though the...
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License To Fret
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Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
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THE LAST WORD License to Fret Elizabeth Kirhland Cahill For several nights in July, the thrilling, testosterone-laden notes of the James Bond theme music filled our family room, as my husband and...
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Vol. 139 Issue 022 (December 21 2012)
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