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Vol. 091 Issue 003 (May 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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'Don't Get Sick in America'
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr ‘Don’t Get Sick in America’ My book on health care, Don’t Get Sick in America, says that with medical expenditures at $63 billion a year and headed...
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Israel's Summer of Content
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RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM
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A Promising Harbinger? Israel’s Sum mer of Content By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem Quiet in the South, quiet in the North; Hamas and Hezbollah humbled; Iran stumbling; Bibi...
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Obama and Russia
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LYNCH, ALLEN C.
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No Sense of Community Obama and Russia By Allen C. Lynch OF ALL THE PEOPLE in the world President Barack Obama has addressed, the Russians have proved most resistant to his rhetorical...
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Why Libraries Still Matter
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KANFER, STEFAN
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Culture Watching Why Libraries Still Matter By Stefan Kanfer AS A CHILD, James Baldwin sought to escape from a harsh stepfather and the miseries of Manhattan’s black ghetto. He did...
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Ironies of the Civil War
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Summer Books Ironies of the Civil War By Christopher Clausen As Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial fades into the back file of anniversaries, the Civil War Sesquicentennial looms ominously. The...
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End of the Romantic Revolutionary
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BELKNAP, ROBERT
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End of the Romantic Revolutionary Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia By Vladislav Zubok Harvard. 464 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Robert Belknap Professor of Russian, Columbia...
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A Lucky Choice of Enemies
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SHANOR, DONALD R.
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A Lucky Choice of Enemies Germany 1945: From War to Peace By Richard Bessel HarperCollins. 522 pp. $28.99. Reviewed by Donald R. Shanor Author, “After the Russians: Eastern Europe Joins...
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Revisiting 'Daniel Deronda'
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HEILBRUNN, JACOB
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Revisiting ‘Daniel Deronda’ The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot By Gertrude Himmelfarb Encounter. 180 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor, New York “Times Book Review,”...
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Searching for the Right Prescription
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LAKOFF, SANFORD
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Searching for the Right Prescription The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care By T.R. Reid Penguin. 288 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Sanford...
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Our Third Legislative Branch
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Our Third Legislative Branch Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court By James MacGregor Burns Penguin. 326 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Henry...
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Gotham's Good Time Landmarks
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HABERMAN, CLYDE
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Gotham’s Good Time Landmarks Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure By David Freeland NYU Press. 288 pp. $19.95 (paper). Reviewed by Clyde...
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A Matter of Inheritance
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction A Matter of Inheritance By Brooke Allen Reading a novel by Richard Russo is a bit like watching a good athlete perform: There is a natural grace that makes an inherently...
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The Fuel of Art and Life
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GRAHAM, PHILIP
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The Fuel of Art and Life Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector By Benjamin Moser Oxford. 479 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Philip Graham Author, “Interior Design:...
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Pynchon Up Close
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KAMINE, MARK
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Pynchon Up Close Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon Penguin. 369 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Contributor, “TLS,” New York “Times Book Review,” the “Believer” AS I WAS NEARING the end...
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Action vs. Reverie
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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Action vs. Reverie Exiles in the Garden By Ward Just Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 279 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of English, the School of the Art Institute of...
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Verse as the Supreme Fiction
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Verse as the Supreme Fiction By Phoebe Pettingell SINCE THE ADVENT of Modernism, definitions of poetry have become blurred. One can no longer define verse by the use of meter, much...
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On Television
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KITMAN, MARVIN
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On Television How Reality Works By Marvin Kitman IRECENTLY READ in the New York Times that the hottest thing in Indonesia is reality television. Indonesian Idol and a host of...
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Vol. 092 Issue 006 (May 1 2009)
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