The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is so much identified with seriousness -- his choice of subjects, from Kashmir to Andalusia; his position as a literary negotiator of East and West; his decade and more of internal exile in hiding from the edict of a fanatical theocrat -- that it can be easy to forget how humorous he ...

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Let us without delay get to the core statement of Cyril Connolly's Enemies of Promise, which first appeared in 1938, survived a slightly revised reappearance in 1948, has just been reissued (and is very ably introduced by Alex Woloch) by the University of Chicago Press, and has seemed to challenge...

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While writing his masterpiece, Portrait of an Age, the historian G. M. Young came to apprehend that "the real, central theme of History is not what happened, but what people felt about it when it was happening: in Philip Sidney's phrase, 'the affects, the whispering, the motions of the people.'" A...

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At the age of 15, Noel Coward was staying in an English country house and found a copy of Beasts and Super-Beasts on a table: "I took it up to my bedroom, opened it casually and was unable to go to sleep until I had finished it." I had a similar experience at about the same age, and I agree with...

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Looking over the headlines at a news kiosk in Paris this spring was like examining an array of autopsy reports and clinical case studies. "The Man With the Bags Under His Eyes" read Le Point, a right-wing weekly that might normally be presumed to bolster France's right-wing president. Nicolas...

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The career, God knows, has been long. A book is in order. And let's not kid ourselves -- if not now, when? Lately, her appearances on The View bring to mind the final years of the Reagan presidency. Lucidity is waning; recall plays tricks. Too often, a tiny, nut-brown hand waves vaguely in the air, ...

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[Ed. Note: This review was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1882.] The Atlantic may fairly claim to have exercised its critical function upon the just completed novels by Mr. James and Mr. Howells before the reader had begun to enjoy them, and to have reserved the right...

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[Ed. note: This review was published in the Atlantic Monthly, September 1883.] Of the first fifteen chapters of Mr. Clemens's book, twelve are reprinted from The Atlantic; but they are so full of entertaining and instructive matter that they will repay a second reading. In the three...

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[Ed. note: This review first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, May 2005.] When Abraham Lincoln gave an audience to Harriet Beecher Stowe, he is supposed to have greeted her by saying that she was the little woman who had started this great war. That fondly related anecdote illustrates the...

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Seven years ago, Rick Perlstein, a young and decidedly left-wing historian, accomplished a daring feat: he imagined his way into the hearts and minds of the right-wing idealists who made Goldwaterite conservatism one of the most successful mass movements of the 1960s. The result was Before the...

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Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro

Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum

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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan

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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert

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Vicious: Wolves and Men in America by Jon T Coleman

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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Rebellion and Revolution on a Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac

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Peterson Field Guides: The North American Prairie (Peterson Field Guide Series) by Ruth Carol Cushman

Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman

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The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment by Geoffre Kabaservice

Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi

Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders

The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith

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Faith Fox by Jane Gardam

Autumn of the Moguls My Misadventures by Michael Wolff

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning

Don Quixote by Cervantes and Edith Grossman

Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

Raintree County by Ross, Jr. Lockridge

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume 2: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura Schlessinger

The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essays by Cindy Chupack

The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie

The Gay Talese Reader by Gay Talese

Trading Up: The New American Luxury by Michael J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske and John Butman

Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky (New York Review Children's Collection) by Esther Averill

The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography by Fred Kaplan

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Chicago's Famous Buildings by Franz Schulze

The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism by Penelope Fitzgerald

There Goes the Bride by Rachel Safier

My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey

Goethe the Poet & the Age Volume 2 by Nicholas Boyle

Madam Secretary by Madeleine K. Albright

L'Affaire by Diane Johnson

Red-Color News Soldier by Zhensheng Li

Jamesland by Michelle Huneven

Boys' Crusade : the American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (03 Edition) by Paul Fussell

The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara by Geoffrey Wolff

Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation by Robert Gildea

Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy

Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter

Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer

Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories by Omer Bartov

The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War by Daniel Aaron

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico by Sybille Bedford

The Photograph by Penelope Lively

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling

The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal

Long for This World by Michael Byers

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy by Andrew Zimbalist

Bay of Souls by Robert Stone

Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals by Rod Preece

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The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins

The Book of Prefaces by Alasdair Gray

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain

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Alexander Hamilton: A Life by Willard Ste Randall

Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

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Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood by Diana Athill

Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

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The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 by David M. Glantz

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M. Naimark

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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

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