March 2012
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“What makes this volume such a pleasure to read, and what makes it the best book...”
– Jessica Freeman-Slade, on The New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and translated by Nathan Englander.
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“I have an awareness about myself that I think many people these days have, about...”
– BR Poetry Editor Timothy Donnelly (via bostonreview)
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“Here are a few things I don’t usually tell people: I thought The Police really...”
– Hip to Be Square: Confessions of an Out-of-the-Loop Parent by Jessica Francis Kane
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“I’m glad I haven’t read anything Leonard wrote about Nixon after 1975. My guess...”
– John Leonard Died for Our Sins by Bill Morris
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“As [Jonah] Lehrer writes, ‘Until we understand the set of mental events...”
– It’s All in Your Head: The Problems With Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine by Tim Requarth and Meehan Crist
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“But the big five and Apple are not in a good position to cry foul. First, the...”
– Amazon v. Apple by Colin Robinson
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“You can still make books where stuff happens. I don’t think you necessarily have...”
– Hari Kunzru in his interview with Anne K. Yoder.
Hey, do you live in New York? What are you doing Thursday? Come check out Hari in Brooklyn at an event co-sponsored by WORD and The Millions!
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“The villains are chilling; the order of veiled monks who stalk Joe and Edie are...”
– Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker reviewed by Emily St. John Mandel 