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Every moment I'm alone, I'm secretly reading the stories, the forums, the recommendations. I can't stop!
By Cary Tennis
November 2, 2007
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After Carnival, soccer and samba, go deeper into this South American nation via its seductive novels and gritty true-life stories.
By Anderson Tepper
January 30, 2007
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There's more than magical realism in the literature of this beautiful and still very dangerous country.
By Matthew Fishbane
January 16, 2007
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Despite their historical distrust of the written word, Europe's Gypsies have a growing -- and captivating -- literary tradition.
By Colum McCann
January 10, 2007
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Delve into Lowlands literature and discover there's much more to this prosperous nation than wooden clogs, tulips and -- of course -- weed.
By Matt Steinglass
November 30, 2006
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Put aside stories of a freezing, exotic locale full of igloos and kooks in favor of these portraits of the hardscrabble -- and magical -- Northern state.
By Seth Kantner
November 13, 2006
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Alienation, the struggle for a decent life, really bad weather -- the universal themes of this vast nation's literature make us all feel Russian at one point or another.
By Ken Kalfus
November 6, 2006
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This livable, futuristic, far West outpost of our continent has been a home for writers from Alice Munro to Douglas Coupland.
By Jeff MacIntyre
October 30, 2006
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If you like "The Wire," delve into books by Robert Ward, John Waters and William Manchester to experience more avenues of Charm City.
By Laura Lippman
October 23, 2006
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From Borges to Bruce Chatwin, the rich and moody literature of South America's most European nation reflects its homeland's squandered potential.
By Benjamin Kunkel
October 16, 2006
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The grit -- and beauty -- of this land of Mafioso is captured in the mysteries of Leonardo Sciascia and the expat writings of Mary Taylor Simeti.
By Anna Monardo
October 9, 2006
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John Kennedy Toole, Ernest Gaines and the recipes of Enola Prudhomme will instruct you in the sorrows and joys of the Bayou State.
By Rebecca Wells
October 2, 2006
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More than an Alpine playground, Europe's most beloved mountain range has provided the dramatic backdrop in novels by Hemingway, Greene and Salter.
By Eric Weinberger
September 25, 2006
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Forget Paul Hogan and Foster's-drinking loudmouths. Bill Bryson and Peter Carey introduce you to real, fiercely proud Australians.
By Emma Pearse
September 18, 2006
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The Eddas -- epic sagas that form the core of Norse religion -- are best read under the ash trees in this Land of the Midnight Sun.
By William T. Vollmann
September 11, 2006
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This endlessly fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking puzzle of a country that's fraught with religious and political conflict is brilliantly captured in the novels of Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 4, 2006
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The "black hole" of Asia and its estranged brother to the south are revealed in books from a political refugee, an American mountain man and a war veteran.
By James Card
August 31, 2006
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From 17th century haikus to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, writing from this Far East nation reveals an obsession with beauty and discipline.
By Kyoko Mori
August 28, 2006
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Westerners who came here in the '70s left magnificent travel writing that captured the rugged, captivating land before war tore it apart.
By Ann Marlowe
August 24, 2006
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The crazy character of this wondrous land shines in the poems of Pablo Neruda, while its strife under Pinochet is captured best by José Donoso and Patricia Verdugo
By Ariel Dorfman
August 21, 2006
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The past of this eternally youthful "city of the world" is captured in the work of journalist Joseph Roth, author John le Carré and psychiatrist and novelist Alfred Döblin.
By Christine Smallwood
August 17, 2006
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Our famously divided capital has produced novels about white people in power and novels about everyone else. Explore the best of both worlds with Henry Adams and George Pelecanos.
By Lorin Stein
August 14, 2006
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Allow Leonard Cohen and Mordecai Richler to show you Canada's most prized -- and sublimely permissive -- city.
By David Bezmozgis
August 10, 2006
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To understand the last century of this vast Far Eastern country, look to the moving stories of Lu Xun, a celebrated memoir of the Cultural Revolution and an engaging, concise history.
By Nell Freudenberger
August 7, 2006
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Bruce Springsteen may provide the soundtrack to your boardwalk stroll, but great novels by Richard Ford and Frederick Reiken should keep you company on the beach.
By Suzy Hansen
August 3, 2006
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