Reading between the lines.

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• The Holy Church of Food Preacher Pollan's no populist, but his politics are right.
  Laura Shapiro Dec. 31, 2007
  
• Paradise Lost Why doesn't anyone read Dante's Paradiso?
  Robert P. Baird Dec. 24, 2007
  
• The Renaissance of Latin Why a dead language is becoming popular.
  Emily Wilson Dec. 18, 2007
  
• The Mystery of Condi Rice Where did she learn how to play the game?
  Anne Applebaum Dec. 17, 2007
  
• The Year in Books Slate picks the best books of 2007.
  Dec. 13, 2007
  
• Who Cares? The big question at the heart of J.M. Coetzee's work.
  Judith Shulevitz Dec. 10, 2007
  
• A Shy and Brainy Guy Steve Martin explains how he got so funny.
  Ben Yagoda Dec. 3, 2007
  
• The Future of the GOP What Michael Gerson's Heroic Conservatism gets wrong.
  Ross Douthat Nov. 26, 2007
  
• Portrait of the Artist as an Immigrant Ha Jin's quintessentially Chinese-American novel.
  Ruth Franklin Nov. 19, 2007
  
• Happiness Is a Warm Puppy The dour genius behind Peanuts.
  Brian Doherty Nov. 15, 2007
  
• Watch Your Language What our words reveal about our minds, but not about the world.
  Christine Kenneally Oct. 17, 2007
  
• The Music Man What neuroscience can't tell us about music.
  Paul Elie Oct. 8, 2007
  
• The Man Who Transformed American Education What Albert Shanker has to teach us today.
  Sara Mosle Oct. 1, 2007
  
• No Cakewalk in Korea Why Halberstam lets the establishment off the hook.
  Stephen Sestanovich Sept. 24, 2007
  
• Mayhem in Mexico Roberto Bolaño's great Latin American novel.
  Paul Berman Sept. 10, 2007
  
• The Women's History Boom Transforming a profession from the inside.
  Megan Marshall Sept. 4, 2007
  
• Outing an Unfinished Novel Edmund White takes liberties with a Stephen Crane fragment.
  Christopher Benfey Aug. 27, 2007
  
• The Quinceañera Craze What is the real message of the coming-of-age bash?
  Liza Mundy Aug. 22, 2007
  
• Why Do They Hate Us? Strange answers lie in al-Qaida's writings.
  Reza Aslan Aug. 6, 2007
  
• The Secret Lives of Australians The chronicler of the outback is master of the interior.
  Michael Wood Aug. 3, 2007
  
• FDR's Latest Critics Was the New Deal un-American?
  Eric Rauchway July 5, 2007
  
• Summer Reading Should you read the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love?
  Katie Roiphe July 3, 2007
  
• Summer Books What Slate is reading this summer.
  Dan Chiasson July 3, 2007
  
• Günter Grass, Reconsidered What does Peeling the Onion reveal?
  Barbara Probst Solomon July 2, 2007
  
• Not Strictly Platonic Annie Dillard tells a love story.
  Daniel B. Smith June 28, 2007
  
• Waugh Talent How one family became a dynasty in the world of British letters.
  Geoffrey Wheatcroft June 25, 2007
  
• Race and Power The real mystery at the heart of New England White.
  Emily Bernard June 19, 2007
  
• Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition—or Do They? A look at Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan.
  Tyler Cowen June 13, 2007
  
• Dissecting Diana Tina Brown, image-maker, on the tabloid princess.
  Gaby Wood June 12, 2007
  
• Even Evangelical Teens Do It How religious beliefs do, and don't, influence sexual behavior.
  Hanna Rosin May 30, 2007
  
• God's Frozen People Michael Chabon carves out a Jewish state in Alaska.
  Ruth Franklin May 8, 2007
  
• Darwin's Delay Portrait of the naturalist as a brilliant writer.
  Jonathan Weiner May 3, 2007
  
• Nicotine and Gravy A new book on why Americans love cigarettes—and whether the government should interfere.
  Richard Klein April 27, 2007
  
• Primo Levi's Alchemy Don't read the Holocaust into everything he wrote.
  Ruth Franklin April 9, 2007
  
• Our Favorite Ghosts Why are we still so obsessed with the Victorians?
  Michael Chase-Levenson March 22, 2007
  
• Raiders of the Lost Arc Is Joan of Arc the prototype for modern celebrity?
  Jessica Winter March 19, 2007
  
• Mysteries of Identity John Banville's alter ego.
  Gideon Lewis-Kraus March 12, 2007
  
• A Man of Security, not Peace If Shimon Peres is lucky, his new biography will be his legacy.
  Shmuel Rosner March 8, 2007
  
• Meat vs. Potatoes The real history of vegetarianism.
  Laura Shapiro Feb. 27, 2007
  
• Pop Culture Neal Pollack's Alternadad.
  Michael Agger Feb. 12, 2007
  
• The Amis Papers Where is Martin Amis headed next?
  Keith Gessen Feb. 6, 2007
  
• Black Sheep The letters of Jessica Mitford.
  Daphne Merkin Feb. 2, 2007
  
• Ignorance Abroad Michael Oren's new history of America in the Middle East.
  Shmuel Rosner Jan. 19, 2007