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Latest Posts
- Did not think the girl could be so cruel
- A sentient winter squash
- Overheard at the Strand
- The fake New York Times: "All the news we hope to ...
- "I can't imagine dying without this book"
- Obama: what would great-great-grandma think?
- Because "fag hag" is a little rough
- Ad landing
- Gold leaf from Goldschlager
- A Georgian Milosevic?
Best Posts: Alice
- The day I stopped liking marzipan
- If only Spock had a sister
- All roads lead to Lubbock
- XO
- Improper use of rock nostalgia
- A desert read is not like a beach read
- ESPN - TMI
- Jane Austen in the barroom
- Archive fever, vol. 1
- Hysterical, but not historical
- Geology reduces religion to rocks
- This book will save your life
- Idler or rambler?
Best Posts: Ben
- The Bit and the Pendulum
- Better names for NBA teams
- Broken umbrellas and New York lit
- Kitsch in translation
- Friends with money
- Circumcision: what the hell?
- Gaming Parliament
- Muk-Chi-Ba, the perfect game
- The Maginot Line of cybersecurity
- Mind in a breeze, a stone, a sun
- Massive multiplayer fact-checking
- Deus ex detective novel
- Predicting the Oscars
- Paris vs. Achilles in Econ
- Rape, torture, and uncertainty
- Esperanto: race not to swift
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Recently-mentioned Books
- Amy Hempel's Reasons to Live
- Amy Hempel's At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom
- Padget Powell's Edisto
- Paul Hoffman's Archimedes' Revenge
- Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace
- Philip Dick's Ubik
- Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
- Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Michael Drury's Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress
- Wendell Steavenson's Stories I Stole
- Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep
- Henry Hitchings's Defining the Word: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
- Neustadt and May's Thinking In Time: The Uses Of History For Decision Makers
- Scott Huler's Defining the Wind
- Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow
- Mary Gaitskill's Veronica
- Mary Gaitskill's Two Girls Fat and Thin
- Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior
- Mary Gaitskill's Because They Wanted To
- Paula Fox's Desperate Characters
- Paula Fox's Poor George
- Paula Fox's The Widow's Children
- Paula Fox's One-Eyed Cat
- Paula Fox's The Slave Dancer
- Paula Fox's Borrowed Finery
- Linda Carroll's Her Mother's Daughter
Our friends are superstars
- Jenny Davidson'sLight Reading
- Adela Ramos's Twofold
- Miriam Haskell'sHope Yourself
- Mike and Anna Mirer's Free Floating Hostility
- Jeff Posnick's Thirty-Four
- David Kaiser's History Unfolding
- The Bruni Digest
- You Can't Make It Up (Michelle Collins)
- Dirty Old Prom Queen (Lang Fisher)