Drunk and Disorderly
Phoebe Connelly : Fiction
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
2009
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Lingo: Fopcorn
Ange Mlinko : Linguistics
Is the history of English really the history of adult learners of a second language?
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Chop Shops
Charles Taylor : Fiction
Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.
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A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt
Howard W. French : Africa
Published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart mounted a literary rebellion against the everyday amalgamations and condescension that treat Africa as an undifferentiated wasteland.
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Lingo: And Then Some
Ange Mlinko : Lexicography
Would a master thesaurus contain the history of human perception?
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Bridging It
K. Leander Williams
With the help of a collector, Sonny Rollins has taken the curating of his career in a new direction.
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Lingo: What Child Is This?
Ange Mlinko : Linguistics
This is Lingo, a new occasional column about language. Is language acquisition uncanny or orphic?
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In the Money
Charles Taylor
An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
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BookExpo 2012, Los Angeles
Will Heinrich
The hottest titles exorcise ghosts from our political past.
2008
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'Lost as Food and Won as a Coast'
Is a new, computer-generated poetry anthology as intriguing--and boring--as the lifework of any fairly prolific poet?
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Sloveniafest
What is it about Slovene poetry that has attracted so many American poets?
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The Idiocrats
Alexander Provan : Internet & New Media
Why do Internet boosters continue to confuse social networking with art?
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Seeing Past the Ivy
William Deresiewicz : Literacy & Reading
Why the commentariat's response to hand-wringing about "the decline of reading" condescends to the large mass of nonspecialist readers.
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