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Audiobooks helped me find the time to reread T.H. White's magnificent "The Once and Future King"
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
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“Wave”: A family vacation turns into the worst kind of nightmare
The author survived the 2004 tsunami, but she lost her parents, her husband and her children
Sunday, Mar 3, 2013 11:00 PM UTCEntertainment What to Read, Books, Nonfiction
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David Duchovny loses a nuclear sub, Rebecca Hall fills the "Downton" void, and Betty Friedan ignites a movement
Saturday, Mar 2, 2013 3:00 PM UTCEntertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Books
Is the priesthood a failed tradition?
Garry Wills, who once considered the priesthood, offers a probing inquiry into priests' powerful role in the church
Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, audible, Audio Books
How Christopher Hitchens proved that nothing is sacred
The late author's now-classic "The Missionary Position," a takedown of Mother Teresa, resonates even louder today
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“The $60,000 Dog”: Animal attraction
A master memoirist on the human-beast connection, from pampered pets and hated pests to girls and their horses
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 10:00 PM UTCEntertainment Lauren Slater, dogs, Memoir, nature
“The Adventures of Cancer Bitch”: Memoir of a sassy survivor
S.L. Wisenberg's virtuosic, poignant book documents her battle with cancer and the malignant culture of dishonesty
Friday, Oct 12, 2012 2:22 PM UTCEntertainment Audio Books, The Listener, Memoir
Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store”
The Pulitzer winner and early Obama backer felt blacks had become invisible to him. The result: "Telegraph Avenue"
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The best nonfiction of 2011
Our favorite nonfiction spanned centuries and the world, and told stories of writers, princesses and great thinkers
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The best fiction of 2011
In a stellar year for the novel, these five books stood above all others
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“Arrows of the Night”: The man behind the Iraq War
The story of how Ahmad Chalabi bamboozled the U.S. into Iraq is like a great spy novel. Too bad the blood is real
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“Ghost Lights”: The tax man’s heart of darkness
In Lydia Millet's brilliant new novel, a skeptical tax man follows a runaway millionaire to Latin America
Sunday, Nov 20, 2011 10:00 PM UTCEntertainment What to Read, Fiction
“El Narco”: The drug war next door
An in-depth look at the Mexican cartels that have killed thousands and threaten the government itself
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