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May 11, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Christopher Hitchens has never been a friend to religion. The sharp-tongued British-born critic and provocateur called Mother Theresa "the Ghoul of Calcutta." He was early and loud in denouncing . . .
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June 08, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
In an age of X-box and videogames, there still needs to be a place for skipping stones and skinning rabbits. That’s what “The Dangerous Book for Boys” argues. The boys-only manual of . . .
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June 13, 2007 10:29 AM EDT --
Let's face it, summer reading has become a fashion statement, a vacationer's fetish, a marketer's dream. Sun lotion and Tuscan sun. Whole families, assiduously armed with hot paperbacks. Please, . . .
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April 26, 2007 08:46 AM EDT --
From Borat to Jon Stewart and beyond, Jewish humor is alive and kvelling.
On Point spoke about Jewish humor today with William Novak and Moshe Waldoks, the authors of the 25th edition of "The . . .
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May 17, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
Years before Jerry Falwell, there was another Moral Majority -- the Victorian Era. It was born in a time of war, anxiety and power. It banished a romantic era of personal liberty and bawdy license, . . .
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March 26, 2008 10:55 AM EDT --
Comic books were booming in the 40s and 50s with kids ogling the lurid pages of "Chamber of Chills," "Tomb of Terror" and "My Secret Affair." These weren't just simple . . .
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April 12, 2007 10:14 AM EDT --
On Point is talking today to Seth Lerer, English and Comparative Literature professor at Stanford. He has just written a book titled "Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language," which . . .
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May 09, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
Like many American school children, Jon Clinch read Huck Finn. But unlike the rest , Huck’s story stayed with him—in his own words: haunted him.
Huck Finn's pap was never an angel. . . .
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June 07, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
The celebrated novelist, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, a son of the Spokane and Couer d'Alene tribes.
He made it through a rough childhood and stepped . . .
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May 15, 2008 11:58 AM EDT --
Donald Ray Pollock grew up in tiny Knockemstiff, Ohio, way down in the state's southern hills just 50 miles from Kentucky. He dropped out of high school, worked 30-some odd years in a paper . . .
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July 20, 2007 09:56 AM EDT --
Ten years ago, J.K. Rowling was a 30-year-old single mom living on welfare in a chilly one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh, and no one had heard of Harry Potter.
Ten years and 325 million copies later, the . . .
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May 08, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
Novelist, essayist, poet and all-around London super-critic Clive James has been a fixture of Britain's cultural thrust and parry for decades. Now he's out with a warning for the world, at least . . .
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June 12, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
When Roy Blount, Jr. goes looking for the soul of America, he doesn’t find it in the “heart” of the South or the “mind” of the North. He finds it in those places where . . .
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June 21, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
For most of human history, we had only words to describe human intelligence -- bright, dim, genius, fool.
But in the last century, we've had numbers -- IQ numbers as in "intelligence quotient." . . .
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July 02, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
You probably remember at least one book from your childhood. The Cat in the Hat, perhaps? Goodnight Moon? Where the Wild Things Are?
Seth Lerer, Professor of English and Comparative Literature . . .
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December 05, 2007 10:55 AM EST --
This year’s crop of books took readers on a wild ride.
Clarence Thomas told his life story and found controversy. Debut novelist Junot Diaz struck gold with “The Brief Wondrous Life of . . .
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July 18, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Rivers may be made for swimming, but Americans haven’t done much of that in a long time -- too dirty, too scary.
Akiko Busch was facing milestones and loss and change. She walked down to the nearest . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
In the hands of Korean-American immigrant novelist Min Jin Lee, the immigration debate now on Capitol Hill looks like kid's stuff.
Her debut novel, "Free Food For Millionaires," goes much, . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Deep in the Moscow subway, Russians moving beneath a world of snow and crime are reporting seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin, standing and staring. And with that plot charge, novelist Martin Cruz Smith . . .
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June 25, 2008 11:06 AM EDT --
Life should be easy, we like to think. But it isn't. Not being old. Not getting old. Not being young.
In Roxana Robinson's new novel "Cost," it's summertime on the coast of Maine, . . .
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