"Tinsel" investigates the allure -- and demented poignancy -- of America's holiday obsession
By Laura Miller Nov 22, 2009
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A new book says: Fiction is dead, long live the age of autobiography
By Laura Miller
November 15, 2009
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A new book on the history of "proper" English says you're just stuck up
By Laura Miller
October 25, 2009
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A new biography of the most beautiful woman in the world says her greatest talent lay in being famous
By Laura Miller
October 19, 2009
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A reformed alcoholic learns she's innocent of the crime that changed her life in "Blame"
By Laura Miller
October 5, 2009
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A memoirist searches for the truth about a fatal shooting in 1960s Phoenix
By Laura Miller
November 8, 2009
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Mystery and conspiracy plague a dig at the site of ancient Sparta in "The Hidden"
By Laura Miller
November 1, 2009
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A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 1, 2009
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This masterly literary history from co-editor Greil Marcus does justice to our country's best and worst moments
By Laura Miller
September 22, 2009
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With "The Lost Symbol," his "Da Vinci" follow-up, Brown spins a wild Freemason conspiracy -- then never solves it
By Laura Miller
September 15, 2009
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The celebrated author's "A Gate at the Stairs" is aggressively clever, meticulously crafted -- and exhausting
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 1, 2009
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Blog turned book, "The Sartorialist" finds beauty in passersby and strikes a blow against boring "celebrity style"
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 25, 2009
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"The Magicians" is a ravishing adult novel that shines a new light on the fantasy tales we read as kids
By Laura Miller
August 12, 2009
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Romantic poets and scientists tapped the marvels of nature and sounded a clarion alarm that can transform us today
By Kevin Berger
August 10, 2009
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An eye-opening collection of essays revisits the legendary campaign-trail moment
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 10, 2009
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Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 6, 2009
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The famed author is back with a tale of drugs, hippies and paranoia -- and you don't need a decoder ring to read it
By Laura Miller
July 31, 2009
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From "Harriet the Spy" to "A Wrinkle in Time," girl-centric novels of the past come to life in "Shelf Discovery"
By Joy Press
July 28, 2009
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A lovelorn schoolteacher uses the Internet to exact his romantic revenge in Nick Laird's chilling tale
By Laura Miller
July 23, 2009
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Resistance to mind-altering substances is futile, according to a new "Secret History of Getting High in America"
By Laura Miller
July 20, 2009
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Everyone loves a bargain, but a new book illuminates the dangers of cheap stuff
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 12, 2009
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Much of what we're taught has been twisted to suit someone's needs
By Laura Miller
July 9, 2009
Christmas insanity unwrapped
How memoirs took over the literary world
Memo to grammar cops: Back off!
Elizabeth Taylor: How to Be a Movie Star
The murder she didn't commit
Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky
America, the beautiful (America, the ugly)
Dan Brown swaps pseudohistory for pseudoscience
People like Lorrie Moore are the only people here
Where the streets have no shame
Critics' Picks: Magic for grown-ups
The beauty and terror of science
Critics' Picks: The legacy of Obama's "race speech"
Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi
Pynchon lights up
Are you there, God? It's me, childhood
Must read: "Glover's Mistake"
Why we say yes to drugs
IKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart
History is bunk after all
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