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Non-fictionJanuary 25, 2007
Party Politics
Dancing in the Streets is a history of outbreaks of collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.
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FictionFebruary 2, 2006
The Facts
In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction, linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian author.
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Non-fictionAugust 11, 2005
After Hours
At Day’s Close details everything that went on in the pre-industrial night, from fear to licentiousness.
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMay 26, 2005
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ClassOctober 7, 2004
Office Politics
As one of those pathetic evolutionary throwbacks who has never used e-mail or the Internet, and has hardly ever handled a mobile phone, I can approach this book with all the supreme disinterested
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisApril 22, 2004
Human, All Too Human
Humanism, like democracy, is a word that labors under an excess of meaning. It can mean acknowledging the value of human beings, or denying the existence of God.
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Non-fictionFebruary 12, 2004
Company Man
The name Shakespeare in Britain is rather like the names Ford, Disney and Rockefeller in the United States. He is less an individual than an institution, less an artist than an apparatus.
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BiographyNovember 20, 2003
Mystic Poet
Most biographies of literary figures are a wonderful substitute for actually having to read the work.
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Autobiography and MemoirAugust 28, 2003
The Life of the Party
Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of course, the sting
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