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07/24/10
'The Shadow'
 
Donna Diamond's "The Shadow" is a picture book that makes hidden fears visible. Meghan Cox Gurdon reviews.
 
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07/24/10
Tolstory and Trollope Fans, Meet Couperus
 
Louis Couperus's "Eline Vere," a novel in the grand 19th-century tradition and a classic of Dutch literature, has been newly translated by Ina Rilke. Michael Dirda reviews.
 
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07/24/10
When Lindy Dared
 
Thomas Kessner's "The Flight of the Century" is an account of Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in 1927—and of the achievement's effect on America. Daniel Ford reviews.
 
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07/23/10
A Combatant in the Battle of Ideas
 
In "Ernest Gellner," John A. Hall offers a portrait of an uncompromising postwar thinker who was at odds with lazy thinking on both sides of the political spectrum.
 
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07/23/10
Going With the Flow
 
Ocean waves, light waves, sound waves, surfers' waves: All are observed and explained in "The Wave Watcher's Companion," by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. Jennifer Ouellette reviews.
 
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07/23/10
Many Angles on the Future
 
"The Year's Best Science Fiction," edited by Gardner Dozios, brings together stories of hard men on rough planets, sinister drug experiments and much else. Martin Morse Wooster reviews.
 
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07/23/10
Mao à la Française
 
In "The Wind From the East," Richard Wolin re-evaluates the protests—fueled in part by the French intelligentsia's infatuation with Maoism—that convulsed France in May 1968. David Gress reviews.
 
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07/22/10
Saul Rosenberg: Memories of Iran
 
Houshang Asadi's memoir, "Letters to My Torturer," recounts his imprisonment under the shah and also under the government of the Islamic Republic. Saul Rosenberg reviews.
 
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07/20/10
Prominence and Patricide
 
In "The Fall of the House of Walworth," Geoffrey O'Brien chronicles the decline and fall of a prominent Gilded Age family. Edward J. Renehan Jr. reviews.
 
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07/19/10
Star Performer
 
In "Voyager," Stephen J. Pyne traces the history of the Voyager missions, traveling billions of miles into space and sending back data from the outer reaches of the solar system and beyond. He also laments the "imperialism" of so much...
 
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07/17/10
The Spice Necklace
 
Ann Vanderhoof sailed through the Caribbean with her husband aboard a boat they named the Receta, the Spanish for recipe. She came back with a bounty of recipes that reflect the varied cuisines found across the islands. Aram Bakshian Jr....
 
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07/17/10
Call These Whodunits Bucolic Noir
 
Not every sleuth works gritty streets—sometimes murder takes a holiday
 
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07/16/10
Real Government Efficiency
 
The raw statism of Thomas Hobbes's "Leviathan" is strangely popular these days. Jeffrey Collins reviews a new edition of Hobbes's masterpiece.
 
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07/16/10
A Failed Rebel's Long Shadow
 
In "Spartacus Road," Peter Stothard travels through Italy, retracing a an ancient slave rebellion that was ultimately unsuccessful but has lived long in myth. Barry Strauss reviews.
 
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07/16/10
Jamie Hamilton: The Lessons of Living Things
 
In "Natural Computing," Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere profile 15 scientists who are using the processes of biology to guide computer design and purpose. Jamie Hamilton reviews.
 
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