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The unwilling Humbert

Just try talking to a kid

Film

Everest 101

A documentary refuses to take us behind the scenes.

Arts & Culture

Fall Arts Preview – Books

Bailey/Coy Books—9/14: Poet and essayist Nancy Venable Raine reads from After Silence, an account of her rape and…

Eat Drink Toke

The heady cocktail of Everest

Matt Dickinson on the mountains North Face, the 96 tragedy, and Mallorys chances on the Second Step.

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What happened to the books?

An argument for keeping the next library bibliocentric.

Arts & Culture

A Season of Hard Western Truths

This may be the best post-Stegner year yet for books about the West.

Arts & Culture

Books Quarterly: The Sweet Science of Literary Revenge

Thom Jones becomes winner, evens score with world.

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Amazon.content for sale

We're shocked! Shocked! To hear that the bookseller is selling 'placement.'

Arts & Culture

Poetic Conversation

Adrienne Rich and Linda Bierds talk poetry, persona, and politics.

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Pop icons

Life of smiley

Arts & Culture

Rhymes With ‘Humpy’

Hooking up with Dangerous Dave, Captain Caviar, and other kings and chum at the Fisher Poets festival.

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Microsoft’s New Brain Project

A prodigy's Redmond isolation lab faces 'outing' over life secrets

Arts & Culture

Snow Queen

A new book and a reissued classic from the world's leading connoisseur of snow.

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Born again

Charles Johnson's follow-up to 'Middle Passage' revives a living, breathing Martin Luther King Jr.

Arts & Culture

As the Page Furns

New faces head Arts & Lectures and the Bookfest, and they're looking for ideas.

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SEVEN WAYS to DIE OUTDOORS

Before you trek off in search of spiritual enlightenment, be warned: It's a jungle out there.

Arts & Culture

The Divine Ascension of Rebecca Wells

Two years after its publication, 'Divine Secrets' finds its audience—in a big way.