- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 6, 2006
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Divided We Live
Alexander Polikoff's memoir about his landmark public-housing case shows just how complex simple justice can be.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 6, 2008
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Girl, You'll Meet a Creature Soon
Sexual initiation lurks just below the surface in Lilli Carré's The Lagoon.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 27, 1998
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 11, 2004
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The Pack Rat Poet
Albert Goldbarth's poetry teems with images from pop culture, history, literature, his Chicago childhood, and more.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 1, 2006
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Feminist, Examine Thyself
In her forthcoming book The Female Thing, lefty critic Laura Kipnis suggests that feminism look inward to explain its failures.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 2, 2009
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Wandering Jews
A short-story collection follows Iraq’s former Jewish population across borders and oceans.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 18, 1999
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 17, 2005
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Wishful History
Mother Jones founder Adam Hochschild wants very badly for the legacy of the abolitionists to belong to the left.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 25, 1999
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 5, 2005
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Love, Death, and a Terrible Blow Job
Former chaplain John Green tackles the big themes in his debut young-adult novel.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 2, 2006
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That's Not Funny
Comedian Amy Guth turns it on to plug a dark debut about women in trouble.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 11, 1996
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 20, 2000
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 30, 2005
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Beyond Bond
A new breed of spy novel questions the very conventions of the spy novel.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 9, 2006
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A True Crime
How a rape victim wound up being treated like a criminal
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 8, 2010
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When Know-It-Alls Don't
It's not just biblical knowledge that’s faith-based.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 22, 1996
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- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 12, 2001
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After the Cure
Anna O. is famous as the first person to benefit from psychoanalysis, but the fascinations of her life don't stop there.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 1, 2005
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The Political Arena
Lefty sportswriter Dave Zirin argues for sports as a force for social change.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 15, 2007
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Send in the Clown
It takes a political satirist to explain the father of capitalism.
