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Bookends: What Accounts for Our Current — or Recurrent — Fascination With Memoir-Novels? [23 Dec 2014|04:50pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/what-accounts-for-our-current-or-recurrent-fascination-with-memoir-novels.html

Leslie Jamison and Daniel Mendelsohn discuss our interest in narratives that blur the line between the real and the fabricated.
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ArtsBeat: Freud Gets Marathon Reading Treatment [23 Dec 2014|06:52pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/freud-gets-marathon-reading-treatment/

Writers, philosophers and veterans will gather to read from “Civilization and Its Discontents,” a work the organizers called “the definitive text on human destructiveness.”
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Books of The Times: ‘Here,' Richard McGuire’s New Graphic Novel [23 Dec 2014|06:53pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/books/here-richard-mcguires-new-graphic-novel.html

Richard McGuire goes back and forth through time in “Here,” a graphic novel set in the corner of a living room.
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ArtsBeat: A Book on Fidel Castro From Jon Lee Anderson [23 Dec 2014|07:52pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/a-book-on-fidel-castro-from-jon-lee-anderson/

The New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson is aiming for “the defining portrait” of Fidel Castro.
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