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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Book Review Podcast: Andre Agassi and Stephen King

This week: Andre Agassi on his memoir, “Open”; Stephen King on a new biography of the short story writer Raymond Carver; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. (Podcast
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Book Review Monday: Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries

I aim to shed light on the extent to which advance in the life sciences was directed by the profit motive and the availability of the patent system … and on the ways that the patent ‘institution’ evolved in response to science and to interest
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:54:00 GMT

"Eating Animals."

EATING ANIMALS By Jonathan Safran Foer Little, Brown. 341 pp. $25.99 It's tempting to dismiss Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' as the product of a cocky, self-involved writer who woke up one day and discovered factory farming. Haven't Michael
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Book Review: Making the Grades by Todd Farley

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:00 GMT

Granta's Chicago sales

Seems that copies of the all-Chicago issues of Granta are keeping things rather merry in the world of pre-holiday retail sales. Read the full article, 'British journal Granta stirs sales in Chicago' on ChicagoTribune.com. Comments You can follow this
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Web Exclusive Book Reviews: 10/26/2009

Web Pick of the Week Birders and fans of animal photography take note: photographer Andrew Zuckerman has brought his hyperdetailed imaging technology to the aviary, with stunning results. Bird Andrew Zuckerman. Chronicle, $60 (300p) ISBN 9780811870986
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:17:00 GMT

Come Back Karl

Amid all this celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, I’m left wondering whether I was the only one to have jumped the other way at the time. It turned me into a Marxist. All my adult life before then I had thought that Marx had
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:00 GMT

Raymond Carvers Life and Stories

Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenickas exhaustive and sometimes exhausting biography as a 3- or 4-year-old on a leash. Well, of
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:00 GMT

Kinky Friedman interview for Heroes of a Texas Childhood

Folk musician and author Kinky Friedman tells Rachel Ray about his political ambitions for Texas, and what it means to be a hero. In his biggest hit record, Kinky Friedman bemoaned: 'They Aint Makin Jews Like Jesus Anymore'. And they certainly arent
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:00 GMT

Book Review - Now That Uganda Has Discovered Oil...

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:54:00 GMT

Book Review - Now That Uganda Has Discovered Oil...

Uganda: Martyn Drakard Book: Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil Author: Nicholas Shaxson Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 Volume: 280 pages Cost: Shs 55,000 Reviewer: Martyn Drakard Available at Aristoc 'Oil,' wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski,
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:00 GMT

Chapter 53: Meeting Sorley

The Dog Who Came In From The Cold is a Corduroy Mansions novel by Alexander McCall Smith. Read Chapter 52 The sleeper train carrying Barbara Ragg and Hugh Macpherson drew into Fort William Station shortly before ten in the morning. The days of generous
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:00 GMT

Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism

Tim Soutphommasane continues his reign of error with this new book, Reclaiming Patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives , writes Guy Rundle .
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:00 GMT

Barbara Kingsolver: Interview

Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible was a controversial bestseller, says Tom Leonard, and her new novel set in Mexico is just as provocative For someone who insists she never tries to write anything nakedly political, Barbara Kingsolver does a good
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:06:00 GMT

Comment on Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism by RV

Yes, “love of place” etc. should be embraced. But that doesn’t mean patriotism, nationalism - those words are forever tainted.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:08:00 GMT

Comment on Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism by mike bazan

Rundle hits the nail on the head again. To me patriotism is a sense of being part of the country without trying to shove it down other people’s throat. I could not imagine being australian without speedos & chisel & vegemite & the afternoon sea-breeze
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:20:00 GMT

Book Review: The Devil's Punchbowl (The West Australian)

In The Devil's Punchbowl, slick purveyor of the Southern Gothic thriller Greg Iles plunges Penn Cage, hero of The Quiet Game and Turning Angel, into a terrifying world of gambling, murder, prostitution, blood sport and hot-air ballooning. Penn -
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:18:00 GMT

Book Review: Samuel Johnson: A Personal History (The West Australian)

Palgrave Macmillan, $39.95 On meeting Samuel Johnson for the first time, most people took the slovenly-dressed man with his large frame continuously twitching and his head lolling about to be an "ideot". It was only when the literary genius opened his
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:17:00 GMT

Comment on Rundle’s Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism by mike bazan

Rundle hits the nail on the head again. To me patriotism is a sense of being part of the country without trying to shove it down other people’s throat. I could not imagine being australian without speedos & chisel & vegemite & the afternoon sea-breeze
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Comment on Rundle’s Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism by Gavin Moodie

I prefer no patriotism, since all forms are used by warmongers to alternately incite and shame people into joining the military to kill people overseas.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:47:00 GMT

Rundle’s Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism

Tim Soutphommasane continues his reign of error with this new book on patriotism, writes Guy Rundle .
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:30:00 GMT

Book Review: Swedish Country Interiors

A collection of fifteen homes that encompass the stunning visual aspects of Swedish design. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Gibbs Smith Special Offer EmailPrint RSS Share Rhonda Eleish and Edie van Breems celebrate the folksy aspects of Swedish design. After
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:53:00 GMT

Granta 108: Chicago

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:00 GMT

Land of My Neighbours, By Barry Pilton

After previous novels set in the Welsh valleys, Barry Pilton's latest full-bodied farce is set in the tiny town of Abernant. Outsiders might be charmed by the area's natural beauty, but locals regard their home as a godforsaken hellhole. When news of an
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:00 GMT

The Whole Day Through, By Patrick Gale

Middle-class melancholia has long been the subject matter of Patrick Gale's fiction. Here he examines a familiar mid-life dilemma: 'Did I make the right choice?' Laura Lewis, an accountant in her forties, has returned to Winchester to care for her
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:00 GMT

Tales of Diplomacy: The Great Wall

Richard Nixon, visiting the Great Wall of China in 1972, said: ‘I think you would have to conclude that this is a great wall.’ Ronald Reagan, visiting the Wall in 1984, said: ‘What can you say except it’s awe-inspiring? It is one of the great
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:55:00 GMT

Yellow Moon by Jewell Parker Rhodes: A Book Review for Bookpleasures.com

Fiction-murder, mystery, thriller, Voodoo 293 pages Reviewer-Michelle Kaye Malsbury, BSBM, MM Review Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Yellow Moon, has penned many award-winning novels. ( Voodoo Season, Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglas Women, and Porch
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:58:00 GMT

Book Review: The King of the Cloud

Behind the Cloud By Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler Josey-Bass; 278 pp.; $27.95 In the annals of technology, the latest phenomenon to get the attention of the industry's powerful hype machine is cloud computing. This is the idea that instead of people and
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:00 GMT

[Book Review] Women in Science: Preferences and Penalties Differ

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:44:00 GMT

[Book Review] Behavior: Selfless Memes

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:43:00 GMT