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Topic: Books (page 368)

"The Migration of Ghosts": Short stories that should be arrested for reckless symbolism

Stephanie Zacharek

It takes a worried man: Stephen Dixon takes the American male past adolescence

Mr. Blue: My journal about hot sex with the ex has my fianci brooding

Garrison Keillor

"Merde": A solid, well-formed investigation of pooping through the ages

In defense of science fiction: Lurid book covers hide literary gems

Head in the bloody sand: Iris Chang on Japan's refusal to publish her horrific "The Rape of Nanking"

Pet Shop Boys redux: Roger Scruton's incivility

Stephanie Zacharek

"By the Shore": Where is that shore?

Rhodes to nowhere: the pinnacle of academia is no North Dakota

Book Bag: John Updike picks the five greatest novels about love

the editors of Salon Books

Dangerous play: McGinniss tackles Italian football don

All men are animals! So say (mostly male) evolutionary psychologists. Bu

Our shopping carts, ourselves: "Why We Buy"

The phantom manuscript: "Ulysses" prequel discovered!

Tilghman's "The Way People Run": The kind of wonderfully gimmick-free short stories we're all supposed to be too busy

Not talented enough:

Ellie Forgotson

Veronica Geng's "Love Trouble": Caustic, hilarious collection by one of America's most wicked satirists

Byatt's absentee ballot: Judge skips Modern Library meetings

Bill Bryson's "I'm a Stranger Here Myself": A lazy writer makes for lazy readers

Rescuing the Cartesian "I": Zizek's "The Ticklish Subject" exhorts us to use what little freedom we have left

Deep code: Novelist Neal Stephenson on secrecy, hacker culture and open-source software

Barefoot on the shag: Cartoonist Lynda Barry on Dennis Rodman, Matt Groening and her new marriage

Pamela Grossman

Penelope Fitzgerald's "Human Voices": Superb comic novel about the BBC during WWII

Sylvia Brownrigg

Dij` vu: David Hare play echoes Julian Barnes article

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