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Explore the plains and panhandle of the Lone Star State with the help of Jim Thompson, Larry McMurtry and Dagoberto Gilb.
By James Hynes
July 31, 2006
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Skip Provence and head west to Gascony, where the weight of history is felt at every turn, and the food will blow your mind.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
July 27, 2006
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Wide open space dotted with the occasional rodeo and watering hole -- you'll need more than Annie Proulx to make it through the long winter here.
By Alexandra Fuller
July 24, 2006
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Mysteries of these lush, exotic South Pacific islands are revealed by a horny anthropologist, a stricken war veteran and a curious young novelist.
By Philip Weiss
July 20, 2006
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This state's beauty and brutality are reflected in its literature, from the chronicle of explorer Cabeza de Vaca to Cormac McCarthy's masterly westerns to a history of the atomic bomb.
By Philip Connors
July 17, 2006
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Discover the former Soviet Union's smallest republic through its fantastic national epic, an exceptional memoir and a love letter from a great Russian poet.
By Meline Toumani
July 13, 2006
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In this place where the bizarre is banal and nothing is quite what it seems, it's no surprise that the literature will blow your mind.
By Ilan Stavans
July 10, 2006
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When you're driving cross-country, get off the interstate and discover the plains and towns that have inspired some fine contemporary writers.
By Meghan Daum
July 6, 2006
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From Betty Smith to Jonathan Lethem to Truman Capote, the chroniclers of this brownstone-lined borough are as diverse as the millions of people who live there.
By Phillip Lopate
July 3, 2006
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This stern landscape spawned the first titans of American literature -- and the obsessions with religion, race and guilty sex that still haunt us.
By David Gates
June 29, 2006
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Get to the city of canals before it disappears -- and don't forget to grab Calvino, James and, of course, Thomas Mann.
By Allen Barra
June 26, 2006
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Secrets of "the 'stans," lands of raw beauty and uninspiring governments, revealed with help from a Kyrgyz novelist and an expert on militant Islam.
By Tom Bissell
June 22, 2006
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Crockett and Tubbs can't match Joan Didion and T.D. Allman when it comes to exposing the shadowy side of South Florida.
By Steve Almond
June 19, 2006
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Looking for the best novel about Zimbabwe? Or just want to take a virtual trip to Martha's Vineyard? On this literary journey, everything is first-class.
By Hillary Frey
June 15, 2006
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Look beyond the sprawl and congestion of this desert state with books from Wallace Stegner, Geronimo and Barbara Kingsolver -- and an unlikely guide to the Grand Canyon.
By Stephen Amidon
June 15, 2006
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Untangle this jungly nation with the best histories of its war-torn past, a terrifying novel about a North Vietnamese soldier, and an affecting memoir of contemporary Hanoi.
By Tom Bissell
June 15, 2006
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Discover these working-class London neighborhoods in novels and histories of their most famous residents: The architect Nicholas Hawksmoor and the infamous Jack the Ripper.
By James Hynes
June 15, 2006
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To touch the heart of Dublin and the country beyond, look to James Joyce's "Dubliners," the poetry of Yeats and a comic masterpiece by Flann O'Brien.
By John Banville
June 15, 2006
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The struggles and desires of this former British colony come through in novels from Doris Lessing, a Shona woman and Zimbabwe's own bad boy of letters.
By Alexandra Fuller
June 15, 2006
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Forget the Kennedys! Discover the farmers and seafarers of this famed vacation spot through a rich book of oral history and the story of the island as told from a kayak.
By Nicole Galland
June 15, 2006
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Santeria, drinking, baseball and struggle -- glimpse Habanero life with work from G. Cabrera Infante, Ada Ferrer and the late, brave Reinaldo Arenas.
By Tony D'Souza
June 15, 2006
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The wild character of this tiny West African nation is captured in a brilliant roman à clef, a wrenching Peace Corps memoir and a fascinating guide to voodoo.
By Matt Steinglass
June 15, 2006
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