 Life With the Weathermen: No Regrets for a Love of Explosives
By DINITIA SMITH
In a memoir of sorts, a war protester talks of life with the Weather Underground.
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France's Shock Novelist Strikes Again
By ALAN RIDING
While it is not his style to look cheerful or sound optimistic, Michel Houellebecq cannot fail to be chuckling at the reaction to his latest novel, "Plateforme."
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Nancy Milford would like readers of her new biography to regard Edna St. Vincent Millay as an iconic Jazz Age figure. But has her poetry held up?
'Jefferson's Pillow': Some Are More Equal
By IRA BERLIN
A testament that is part history and part autobiography, Roger Wilkins's book is a meditation on the inconsistencies of America's founders.
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'Life Script': The Promise of the Human Genome Discoveries
By NATHANIEL C. COMFORT
The journalist Nicholas Wade's book is a tour of medicine's most radical shift in perspective since the germ theory of disease.
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 Salman Rushdie
This retrospective includes reviews of Rushdie's previous books, articles about the death threats against the author after the publication of "Satanic Verses" and an audio recording of Rushdie reading from "Fury."
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THE CLOSE READER
Fiction and 'Literary' Fiction
By JUDITH SHULEVITZ
The American novel has had its ups and downs, but so has the screed deploring its decline. Right now, the latter may be in more trouble.
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