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Topic: Books (page 348)

"How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway?" And Diana Rigg? And Janet McTeer? A fearless theater critic tosses some firebombs

Jacqueline Carey on mysteries: New novels ripped from the headlines

Jacqueline Carey

A good man is hard to write: Today's male novelists scramble after the real thing

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"The Walking Tour": A pulse-quickening collision between the pastoral and cyberspace

Virginia Heffernan

Ivory Tower: The dark truth about black schizophrenics

Annie Murphy Paul

Games people play: The gambling Barthelme brothers talk about their run-in with the law

"In Nevada," "24/7" and "Double Down": The harsh beauty of Nevada, the glitzy pleasures of Vegas and the thrill-ride of gambling

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Dear Mr. Blue: Am I still a good girl after my night of drunken debauchery?

Garrison Keillor

Books Log: At the Bad Sex Prize ceremony, London's literati get loose

Writer beware: Publishing that first novel often brings more terrors than thrills

Samantha Gillison

"The Unburied": Gruesome murder in a cathedral town

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Not for all the tea in America: I fought the good fight in China, but I always knew I'd go home again

Larry McMurtry's "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen": The real West, the ersatz West, the lost West

Second coming: Can hipsters save the Bible from the fundamentalists?

Book Bag: Susie Bright picks her top 5 one-handed reads

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Elaine Showalter

Books Log: Susan Faludi coaches "Fight Club" author

Diana Abu-Jaber

School Days: Over the hill and through the woods: a returning student finds herself lost

Sophia Dembling

Michael Lind's "Vietnam: The Necessary War": An appalling, unnecessary crock

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Betty Fussell's "My Kitchen Wars": Cooking is war, war is hell, hell is marriage

Dear Mr. Blue: My boyfriend never wants to have sex and it's driving me mad

Garrison Keillor

Round-up of Bush books

"The Devil's Cup" and "Uncommon Grounds": History of the buzz in two books about coffee

Richard Reynolds

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