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"My recent relief from the manic political squabbling has been Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. This novel, his first and longest, published in 1952, separates the haves from the have-nots by a river. With a hundred and thirty-one pages to go, it look..."
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: " Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel.. . Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his...
"The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a loosely connected compilation of essays and field notes written by Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer of The New Yorker. Each of the thirteen chapters tracks the extinction or near extinction of a spe..."
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"I became acquainted with the genius of Louise Penny when I read in 2012 her debut novel, Still Life, published in 2005. Back then, I wrote for myself this response to her writing: Remarkable in that the spirit outranks the letter. Author stands at..."
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"The Life of the World to Come, deftly written but not without numerous flaws, presents Leo Brice, narrator, as a Jew in a state of true love. This state makes him superior to all his friends, who have never experienced true love, else they would h..."
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