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Instead of techno-utopian rhetoric, Electrify offers a plan with pragmatic steps to create a better environment and a stronger economy.
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The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.
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Many of the pieces in the collection come in the form of a personal diary, and these give us a sense of the day-to-day inner lives of the prisoners.
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This is a lyrical work: gracefully exaggerating reality is a merit that good poetry and fantasy share.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.
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The author’s aim is to render William Blake’s complex vision understandable to novices. It is a lucid effort, though the book presents a disappointingly conventional overview of the artist’s achievement.
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One reason Fred Waitzkin’s work, outside of Searching for Bobby Fischer, is not as well known as it might be is that it doesn’t respect time-honored boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
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Helen Scales is a self-described nerd who studies the ocean as an enthusiast as well as a scientist.
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Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves
Books Promiscuously Read sets a high standard for what might become an exciting new genre of literary criticism for educated general readers.
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