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Killer thrillers: From an art-world conspiracy to a campus murder to the gripping tale of a missing child, these recommendations will add suspense to your beach book list.
By Laura Miller and Louis Bayard
May 26, 2008
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America finally gets it right, and the best man wins!
By Louis Bayard
May 22, 2008
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In the age of blogging, great critics appear to be on life support. Salon's book reviewers discuss snobbery, how to make criticism fun and the need for cultural gatekeepers.
By Louis Bayard and Laura Miller
May 22, 2008
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Maybe I should be more grateful, but the California Supreme Court hasn't told me anything I don't already know.
By Louis Bayard
May 16, 2008
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In "The Age of Reagan," liberal historian Sean Wilentz reckons with the enormous, ongoing influence of the teflon president.
By Louis Bayard
May 13, 2008
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Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations."
By Louis Bayard
May 9, 2008
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Long before there was "Law and Order," a TV criminal defense attorney named Perry Mason brought high courtroom drama to the masses.
By Louis Bayard
April 29, 2008
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An infamous 1976 photo captured a violent encounter between white Bostonians and a black lawyer during an anti-busing rally. A new book explains why this image continues to haunt and define us.
By Louis Bayard
April 28, 2008
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Karen Joy Fowler's follow-up to bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a detective novel about a mystery writer whose tales come back to haunt her.
By Louis Bayard
April 18, 2008
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A new book argues that Colbert, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are good for democracy. But is it taking late-night comedy too seriously?
By Louis Bayard
April 5, 2008
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He may be a global icon of goodness, as Pico Iyer's biography reminds us. But is the Dalai Lama the political leader Tibet needs?
By Louis Bayard
March 25, 2008
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In light of recent scandals, we will now require arrest records and stool samples from all autobiographers. And can someone fact-check the Gospels?
By Louis Bayard
March 7, 2008
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After a lifetime of competing with his father, writer David Shields has had enough. But the aged patriarch remains "cussedly, maddeningly alive."
By Louis Bayard
March 4, 2008
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Former born-again Christian John Marks journeyed back into the evangelical America he'd left behind and discovered the promise -- and limitations -- of faith.
By Louis Bayard
February 25, 2008
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Controversial critic and disgraced blogger Lee Siegel rages against Internet culture and blogofascism.
By Louis Bayard
January 16, 2008
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Forget morning sickness and weight gain and get ready for nine months of right-wing hand-wringing and embarrassed silence.
By Louis Bayard
December 7, 2006
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Silence about gay politicians is a relic of an era when gayness meant secrecy and shame. It's a disservice to gay people, to voters, and to the politicians themselves.
By Louis Bayard
October 7, 2006
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I won on "Jeopardy." I lost on "Jeopardy." For consolation, I turned to the tart insights of 74-game champion and master-geek Ken Jennings.
By Louis Bayard
September 22, 2006
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The president read Camus' "The Stranger" on vacation in Texas, and now you can read the book report he wrote for Laura!
By Louis Bayard
August 15, 2006
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In "The Commitment," sex columnist Dan Savage explores what gay marriage actually feels, sounds and smells like -- but should he tie the knot?
By Louis Bayard
September 30, 2005
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The exploitative "Who's Your Daddy?" is too stupid to get worked up over. But Americans might want to question the Fox idea of family.
By Louis Bayard
January 4, 2005
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Dickens' formerly cute Tiny Tim is all grown up now, in this tale of murder and mystery in foggy Victorian London -- a long way from those sappy Cratchit Christmases.
December 18, 2003
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As the serialized gay bashing of "Boy Meets Boy" winds to a close, will the gay hero be duped by the straight guy? Or will viewers get duped into thinking this is really edgy new cultural ground?
By Louis Bayard
September 2, 2003
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Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
By Louis Bayard
April 19, 2003
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In the new world of body-slamming right-wing politics, what's a snooty, fake-patrician über-WASP conservative like George Will to do?
By Louis Bayard
October 3, 2002
Summer reads
Finale wrap-up: "American Idol"
Who killed the literary critic?
Gay marriage, so what?
Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck
Is everything we know about American history wrong?
Legal appeal
Flagging America's racial divide
The witty detective 
Can Stephen Colbert save America?
Seduced by the Dalai Lama
Attention, all you memoir fabulists!
Die, Daddy, die!
Are you going to hell?
YouTube, j'accuse!
What Mary Cheney should expect while she's expecting
Open the closets on Capitol Hill
Who is Louis Bayard?
Honey, I read "The Stranger"!
"Being told we can't is making a lot of homos wanna"
Who needs a spanky?
The sound bite and the fury
A dying breed
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