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Her best shot: Singer Pat Benatar fires away in a new autobiography

Jun 22, 7:57 PM

In her new autobiography, “Between a Heart and a Rock Place,” Pat Benatar writes about the toll being rock a pioneer took on her personal life and how she and her husband and longtime collaborator, Neil “Spyder” Giraldo, made it through — together.

Graphic artists give vision to 21 stories about the tricksters of Indian lore

Jun 22, 8:01 PM

Pairing 21 American Indian storytellers with graphic artists, editor Matt Dembicki has produced a spectacular color anthology of trickster tales.

Book review | “The Other Wes Moore”

Jun 21, 6:16 PM

Two boys are born in Baltimore. Both are fatherless from a young age. Both of their mothers strive to move their families to better, safer places, yet both struggle as crack invades America’s inner cities in the 1980s. And both are named Wes Moore. The coincidence of their lives is discovered when, in 2000, the Baltimore Sun runs stories about both of them — one a success story about a college student becoming a Rhodes Scholar; the other a crime story about the fatal shooting of a police officer after a robbery.

Review | Justin Cronin’s vampire epic, ‘The Passage,’ will haunt you

Jun 17, 6:28 PM

Sorry, Bella. No sparkly underwear models flex their way through Justin Cronin’s massive new vampire thriller. But just about everything else has been sucked into the great maw of “The Passage,” this summer’s most wildly hyped novel. Cronin is the latest indication that no one, not even an English professor at Rice University who has written a couple of small literary novels, is safe from the count’s bloody fangs. You’d think Cronin’s degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop would repel vampires like a garlic necklace, but who can resist Dracula’s mesmeric gaze, not to mention that $3.75 million advance?

Review | ‘Opium: Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy’

Jun 17, 6:28 PM

In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared that drugs were “public enemy number one” and launched an aggressive policy known as the War on Drugs. Now, billions of dollars and decades later, Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy argues that it is not working. This will not be news to most people. But why aren’t our efforts more effective, and what could we be doing differently? These are the questions he tackles in “Opium.”

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