Frederik Pohl
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Read MoreMick Herron on Chasing After Smiley
/Mick Herron, author of the celebrated spy novel Dead Lions, opens up about the influence of the godfather of his genre, John le Carré
Read MoreBook Review: Two Boys Kissing
/In bestselling author David Levithan's new novel, two boys try to set a world's record for the longest kiss - and their adventure is cheered on by the most unlikely chorus
Read MoreJoseph and his Brothers
/To many the scriptural story of Joseph is ancient and arcane. But its exploration into divine and authorial omniscience make it seem powerfully contemporary.
Read MoreStalled on the Verge
/The Modernist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker was Immortalized (and insulted) in Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend," yet who today knows her art? A new monograph returns it to the public eye.
Read MoreHot and Cold
/Distance is complicated: it measures intimacy, but in unpredictable ways. Rebecca Solnit’s evocative new book explores the meaning of distance and closeness.
Read MoreHomo Sovieticus
/The USSR's Book of Tasty and Healthy Food created an impression of bounty and gourmet splendor; Anya von Bremzen's memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking reveals the Soviet kitchen's homelier truths
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Read MoreThe Empire Strikes Back
/King and Woolman's new book Assassination of the Archduke, boasts new sources, very close to Franz Ferdinand and his wife -- too close?
Read MoreGod, the Janitor, and the Psychic Hermaphrodites
/Henry Darger, icon of Outsider Art, created unnerving scenes of naked, tortured children. A new biography sets out to clear his name from would-be charges of pedophilia--but is it a reputation that really needs saving?
Read MoreReading Eric Blair
/Today George Orwell is a buzzword; what can his collected letters tell us about the man himself? G. Robert Ogilvy looks for the human being beneath the persona.
Read MoreMusic’s restless avant garde: Still a ‘wonderful adventure’
/Many composers and musicians believe we are in a golden age of experimental creativity in composition. So why does the general concert-going public hate the results?
Read MoreAn Excerpt from YOU
/a poem
Read MoreThe Shape of Things to Come
/All of European history - and beyond - plays out in new and fascinating variations of guns, germs, and steel in Paradox Interactive's new version of its popular video game Europa Universalis
Read MoreA Prose Piece for Your Gaps: Robert Walser's Short Works
/A newly translated selection of occasional prose by Robert Walser demonstrates the Swiss eccentric's range of manic humor and Romantic melancholy
Read MoreWith Friends Like These ...
/What you don't know about bacteria can hurt you, and a new addition to the Oxford Very Short Introduction series aims to set that straight.
Read MoreA Year with Short Novels: Elizabeth Smart; Queen of Sheba
/A wild fever-dream of a book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept careers between thrilling emotion and absurd histrionics.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: The Bureaucrat Who Would be King
/President, prime minister, or unnamed Tsar, Vladimir Putin is at once ubiquitous and unknowable; a new book examines the many facets of a new species of autocrat.
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