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  Box Of Paperbacks Book Club Starswarm by Brian Aldiss (1964)

  The many familiar worlds of Brian Aldiss.

  April 9, 2009 | 4:40pm -

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  Interview Michio Kaku

  The author of Physics Of The Impossible knows where science meets science fiction.

  April 9, 2009 | 1:22pm -

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  Review The Unlikely Disciple

  A self-described sinner goes undercover for a semester at Jerry Falwell's university to see how the holier half lives.  

  April 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review City Kid

  An author, journalist, screenwriter, and TV star who's tried everything else takes a shot at a memoir.

  April 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Gateways To Geekery Classic crime fiction

  Where to start getting hard-boiled.

  April 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review The Song Is You

  In this novel, the relationships between people take a back seat to the relationships between people and their music.

  April 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Inventory Art after death: 27-plus posthumous projects that stand as worthy legacies

   The A.V. Club's weekly list.

  April 6, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Why Do I Own This? huge box of Destroyer novels

  A new column explores the pop culture ephemera the clutters our lives.

  April 3, 2009 | 12:00pm -

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  Review Cutting For Stone

  The fiction debut of a prominent memoirist gets a little too excited by the opportunity to create.

  April 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review Losing My Religion

  An L.A. Times religion reporter reveals how he lost his faith and found himself while reporting on the pedophile-priest scandal of the early ’00s.

  April 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review Until It's Over

  Most roommate woes don't come with murder, but they do in this thriller.

  April 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

• Newswire The bloat goes on: Robert Jordan's "Wheel Of Time" finale to be three volumes

   

  April 1, 2009 | 11:47am -

• Newswire Decider launches in SF & DC...and thus the circle completes (for now) 

  And thus the outbreak reaches critical mass: SF & DC join NYC, LA, Chicago, Austin, Milwaukee, Denver, Twin Cities, and Madison.

  March 31, 2009 | 9:00am -

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  Box Of Paperbacks Book Club The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1897)

  The man who vanished.

  March 27, 2009 | 2:31pm -

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  Comics Panel March 26, 2009 

  The A.V. Club's bi-weekly comics reviews.

  March 26, 2009 | 12:00pm -

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  Review The Believers

  The author of Notes On A Scandal returns with another keenly observed novel, again about women wrecking each others' lives.

  March 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review The Weight Of A Mustard Seed

  A reporter examines the rise and fall of a Saddam Hussein loyalist, and looks for insights into Iraq's recent past and uncertain future.

  March 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review Gimme Shelter

  A New Yorker who couldn't afford a house writes a book for other New Yorkers who can't afford houses.

  March 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Book vs. Film Let The Right One In

   A Swedish bestseller gets pared down to an acclaimed Swedish film that finds its freezing heart.

  March 20, 2009 | 2:17pm -

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  Newswire Many issues of Playboy now archived for free online

   

  March 19, 2009 | 10:40am -

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  Review Cheever: A Life

  A new biography from the author of Tragic Honesty analyzes a life lived in sadness, under a jovial veneer.

  March 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review The Lost City Of Z

  An author follows in the footsteps of a lost South American explorer, succumbing to the same obsessions.

  March 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review Amberville

   Yes, it's a hard-bitten crime thriller about a society of stuffed animals. So?

  March 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Bye-bye, P-I: Final edition of 146-year-old Seattle newspaper hits streets today

   

  March 17, 2009 | 10:30am -

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  Box Of Paperbacks Book Club First Lensman (1950), by E.E. “Doc” Smith

   The saga that launched a thousand sagas.

  March 12, 2009 | 2:14pm -

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  Comics Panel March 9, 2009

  The A.V. Club's bi-weekly comics reviews.

  March 12, 2009 | 1:44pm -

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  Review Is God A Mathematician?

  Well, is he? An astrophysicist spills the beans in this book of scientific philosophy.

  March 12, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review Lowboy

  The split points of view and the psychotic imagery are just two of the things that make this novel remarkable.

  March 12, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Review Why We Make Mistakes

  Fans of Malcolm Gladwell might enjoy this lively social-psychology book on the science of human error.

  March 12, 2009 | 12:00am -

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  Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Watchmen

  So is the film as faithful to the book as everyone says? Yes. And no.

  March 6, 2009 | 12:00am -