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Books 2009:
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- How Heroic Was Churchill? Paul Johnson distills lessons from his life.
Nov. 29, 2009 - The Alienator Making sense of Justice Scalia's personality—and his theory.
Nov. 24, 2009 - The Real Secret of Feminism Gail Collins reveals who actually made change happen.
Nov. 23, 2009 - Stage Fright How to read Philip Roth's quartet on aging.
Nov. 16, 2009 - Hands Off Nabokov Why The Original of Laura should never have become a book.
Nov. 10, 2009 - 1989 and All That How much anti-Communist opposition really was there?
Nov. 9, 2009 - How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon The perverse allure of a damaged woman.
Nov. 2, 2009 - Riding God's Wave The secret of Rick Warren's spectacular success.
Oct. 26, 2009 - Did Thucydides Really Tell the Truth? The hidden agenda of the pioneering historian.
Oct. 19, 2009 - Survivalist Fairy Tales Keith Gessen translates a bold Russian storyteller.
Oct. 12, 2009 - How Nice Are We? What chimps can teach us about our mess of emotions.
Oct. 5, 2009 - The Secrets of Serotonin What Richard Powers' new novel gets wrong.
Sept. 28, 2009 - Ancient Greek Lessons About Gay Marriage The dizzying spectrum of same-sex relationships.
Sept. 22, 2009 - The Encumbrance of Things Past The mystery of William Trevor's nostalgia.
Sept. 21, 2009 - Dan Brown's Washington What does The Lost Symbol get wrong about the nation's capital? Everything.
Sept. 16, 2009 - Where Have All the Women Gone? A manifesto against gender apartheid.
Sept. 13, 2009 - What Nanny Knew Lorrie Moore's new novel is all about lies.
Sept. 7, 2009 - The Puritanical French The unsexy secret of Louis XIV's mistress.
Aug. 30, 2009 - Genocide From the Inside Tracy Kidder asks how a traumatized African becomes an American.
Aug. 24, 2009 - Is It Time To Burn This Book? When Fahrenheit 451 becomes a comic book, it's time to worry.
Aug. 16, 2009 - What's Inside a Big Baby Head? New research brings surprising revelations.
Aug. 9, 2009 - Pynchon on the Beach Why has he settled for a stoned-out detective story?
Aug. 2, 2009 - A Very American Malignancy Maile Meloy is an expert on having it both ways.
July 27, 2009 - What's Romantic About Science? When science became a source of sublime terror.
July 19, 2009 - Lord Byron's Great Insight Mad, bad, and dangerous, he understood what women wanted.
July 12, 2009 - The Supreme Court on Trial James MacGregor Burns takes aim at the bench.
July 6, 2009 - The Birth, and Death, of the Asian Babe The sordid history of the sexually exotic East.
June 29, 2009 - Saint Izzy The tiresome canonizing of I.F. Stone.
June 19, 2009 - 1959 I swear, it really is the year everything changed.
June 18, 2009 - When America First Met the Microchip At the time, few knew it would change the world.
June 18, 2009 - How on Earth Do You Tame Extremists? Cass Sunstein tackles an impossible task.
June 14, 2009 - The Examined, and Exhibited, Life Updike was the consummate stylist with a blogger mentality.
June 7, 2009 - Nowhere Man The secret of Aleksandar Hemon's brilliant satire.
May 25, 2009 - Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Get out of your cubicle, and get those cuticles dirty!
May 19, 2009 - The Myth of Gabriel García Márquez How the Colombian writer really changed literature.
May 18, 2009 - Helen Gurley Brown's Sexy Mistake She was obsessed with the wrong revolution.
May 11, 2009 - Out of Africa? Foreign aid is part of the problem, but so is corrupt politics.
May 1, 2009 - Where's Our Scapegoat? Meet Ivar Kreuger, greedy villain of the 1930s.
April 27, 2009 - Why the Wicked Witch Isn't Dead The timeless allure of witch hunting.
April 17, 2009 - Let's Fight Wars on Earth, Not in Heaven How to define, and avoid, a cosmic war.
April 13, 2009 - Why Write While Israel Burns? Amos Oz's entrancing paranoia.
April 6, 2009 - What Would Happen if You Couldn't Stop Crying? Mary Gaitskill's deeply strange new vision.
March 30, 2009 - The Call of the Wild Wells Tower's debut collection is strong stuff.
March 24, 2009 - The Educational Experiment We Really Need What the Knowledge Is Power Program has yet to prove.
March 20, 2009 - How To Understand the Culture of Poverty William Julius Wilson once again defies both right and left.
March 16, 2009 - The Hidden Heart of Cheever Country What John Cheever, a spy in suburbia, uncovered at last.
March 11, 2009 - Scribblers of America, Unite! Are women writers undervalued because of what they write or how we read?
March 9, 2009 - What Do Humans Owe Animals? The many dangers of anthropomorphism.
March 2, 2009 - Money Made Him Do It What Samuel Johnson can teach us about writing.
Feb. 23, 2009 - Seven Habits of Truly Liberal People Alan Wolfe's persuasive portrait of liberalism.
Feb. 16, 2009 - Lessons From the Gilded Age What Social Darwinists didn't get about evolution.
Feb. 9, 2009 - How Good Are We, Really? There's only so much science can tell us about human morality.
Feb. 2, 2009 - The Mystery of Perversion What idiosyncratic lust can, and can't, tell us.
Jan. 26, 2009 - The Riddle of Herbert Hoover How the hypercompetent technocrat failed.
Jan. 19, 2009 - Move Over, Thoreau Rationalist environmentalism better prevail, and fast.
Jan. 12, 2009 - Richard Yates' Real Masterpiece What Kate Winslet doesn't tell you about Yates and women.
Jan. 5, 2009
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