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Topic: Books (page 353)

Ken Kalfus' "Pu-239": Burrowing inside Russia's head

Body count: In his frightening new bestseller, Pat Buchanan builds his argument atop the corpses of the weak

Ivory Tower: Diary of a teacher's last year: Arrested development

Money, power, and computers

Jill Robinson's "Past Forgetting": A true-life tale of amnesia in Hollywood

Jonathan Lethem

"I'll never run": The political wit and wisdom of Donald Trump

At a private university in Vermont, U.S. military officers are still teaching Indonesians how to fight.

"Pre-Code Hollywood": The forgotten early era when movies were uncensored

Literary leftovers: Do we really need to scrape the bottom of Dashiell Hammett's desk drawers?

Novel disease: "Paisley Girl" suffers from rare disorder

"Secrets of the Flesh": The life of a great French sensualist

Yale: Haven of gay tolerance, or homophobic outpost?

Old Bhagwan, new bottles: The incognito return of Rajneesh

Dennis McCafferty

Dear Mr. Blue: My teenage son is surfing porn sites on the Web and lying to me about it

Garrison Keillor

Celebrity junkie: Living down "Permanent Midnight"

Erik Himmelsbach

Jerry Stahl's "Perv" -- Sex-starved teens, bloodthirsty hippies in a novel by the author of "Permanent Midnight"

Gleick questions: A four-minute interview with the author of "Faster"

Striving for cash with the SATs

Claire Barliant

Something about yourself: A senior bemoans the moronic personal statement

"Plainsong": Love and turmoil in a small town on the High Plains

Jonathan Lethem picks five great novels overshadowed by their film versions

Jonathan Lethem

Baseball must die: Joe Morgan says the national pastime will destroy itself

When students take over, the real learning begins.

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