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- Drop those spareribs, imperialist pig-eaters! A new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism.
The road to Wikipedia - How do we know what we know? A new book takes a long view of knowledge, from ancient oral traditions to the rise of universities and the Internet.
We drive as we live - No wonder traffic will never improve. We are doomed by our behavior, as a drive in New York with "Traffic" author Tom Vanderbilt reveals.
The souls of young Muslim folk - What it's like to be America's new "problem" in the age of terror.
The heretic - Giordano Bruno has been called a martyr to science and an occultist, but a new book argues that the brilliant philosopher's unconventional behavior did him in.
Speculation nation - "Irrational Exuberance" author Robert Shiller predicted both the dot-com bust and the housing market collapse -- and now his new book offers fixes for America's bubble mentality.
A fraud's life - Can great art spring from a lie? Two new books about forgers raise provocative questions about the links between authenticity and genius.
This is not my beautiful wife - Meteorology meets conspiracy in Rivka Galchen's exquisite first novel about a man who mistakes his wife for an impostor.
The devil and David Carr - The veteran newspaperman discusses his alternately horrifying and uplifting memoir about the journey from crackhead to crack New York Times reporter.
David Carr on "The Night of the Gun" - Andrew O'Hehir interviews the writer about his memoir, drug addiction and memory.
1960: The birth of today's games - An interview with David Maraniss, whose new book argues that many current Olympic issues can trace their roots to Rome.
Thomas Frank on the Bush administration: Sabotage by design - The author of "What's the Matter With Kansas?" discusses the corrosive relationship between conservatives and business, liberal bias and his new book about Republican misrule.
Forging the missing case for war - In further chronicles of Bush government deceit, author Ron Suskind drops a bombshell: The White House ordered the CIA to fake a letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
The man who shook the Kremlin - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
Why won't you blurb me? - I had an agent and a book deal for my first novel. All I was missing was quotes for the back cover. Next time, remind me to suck up to more famous writers.
How Kafka-esque is Kafka? - The Czech writer has become the prophet of our absurd era, but a new book intends to strip the author of his saintly reputation.
Judging a book by its (pink) cover - Why are publishers slapping chick-lit-style covers on books written by women, whether they fit the genre or not?
Beijing's first event: Political gymnastics - As Amnesty International slams China on human rights, Western journalists get a taste of censorship -- and Olympic excuse making.
Touched by a vampire - Preteen girls -- and their grown-up moms -- are sinking their teeth into Stephenie Meyer's gothic "Twilight" books by the millions. Move over, J.K. Rowling.
Power to the flower - Down with urban blight! Cultivating public land, as the author of "On Guerrilla Gardening" explains, is nothing short of a revolutionary act.
Obamanomics to the rescue - Global warming, recession, war, healthcare, the energy crisis: A new book argues that Barack Obama has an answer for everything.
The history boy - The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature.
How to read the James Wood way - The fiercely talented critic takes us on an illuminating tour of fiction -- but there's a hole in his plot.
Religion is poetry - The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
The good humor man - Who invented jokes, and why do we laugh at them? Jim Holt discusses the history of funny.
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