Books
Religion is false, unscientific, and morally dubious, and any discussion that doesn’t take that as its starting point will end up going astray.
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An author with a deep affinity for and knowledge of movies and how they’re honored tells us all about Oscar.
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Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.
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A young Hasidic woman addicted to Internet porn? Oy vey, who knew?
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This coffee table book scan of women’s history is visually striking and consistently informative.
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A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.
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Poet Helena Minton deserves our attention; her verse is grounded in a close observation of nature and a love of language.
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Emmanuel Carrère’s novel powerfully satirizes intellectual pretension but at the expense of engaging storytelling.
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At its best, Steve Reich’s Conversations is illuminating and engaging, an honest discussion of the creative process by one of the major composers of our times.
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Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
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