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Topic: Books (page 358)

"For Common Things": Fresh-faced, idealistic, unironic, dumb

Diary of a teacher's last year: Learning self-defense for the classroom.

"The Last Life": Failed father, invisible mother, angry daughter

Moonstruck: How NASA's spectacular lunar photos almost didn't happen

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Polite literature: "The Elements of Style" has sapped the life from American writing

The clothed city: The phoniness of E.B. White's "classic" take on NYC

Excerpt from "Blind Eye": Killing me slowly

James B. Stewart

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James B. Stewart's "Blind Eye": The true tale of a doctor who loved poisoning the patients

Bill Vourvoulias

"Waste and Want": A history of garbage

Like Jonestown in slow motion: Child casualties of Christian Science

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First-day jitters: Teach them Latin? I couldn't even lift my water glass.

Elizabeth Bobrick

The respectable cult: Christian Science has never escaped the shadow of its really weird founder

Dear Mr. Blue: How can I get my boyfriend to go down on me?

Garrison Keillor

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America the brutal: Frank McCourt's follow-up to "Angela's Ashes"

"Backbeat": The story of rock 'n' roll drummer Earl Palmer

Greg Villepique

The suffering Irish: What will they write about now that they've found the pot of gold?

Whitewashing Marxism: As European scholars confront the atrocious legacy of Karl Marx, many American academics continue their ra

Lawrence Osborne

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Fiction, 9 to 5: Ian McEwan picks five favorite novels about work

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"Days of Infamy": A book of military blunders commits a few itself

Skeleton in our closet: Some 25,000 year-old bones are stirring up what it means to be huma

"Coal to Cream": An African-American writer discovers a raceless society in Brazil

Casey Greenfield

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