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  <title>Philip Roth's The Humbling. </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Not long ago, Philip Roth gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal, one of several in various publications that occasioned some surprise, since Roth is a notoriously reclusive writer. In this interview, he revealed that his latest novel, The Humbling, is the third of four short novels. The first two, Everyman and Indignation, came out in 2006 and 2008, respectively. The fourth, called Nemesis, will be published next year. "Together," he said, "the four make a quartet."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235442/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Judith Shulevitz</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:54:19 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Nabokov's The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun).</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Back when I was a young viewer of Sarajevo TV, there was a cult show along the lines of Monty Python that once featured a skit with a poem presumably found in the papers of a deceased genius poet. An actor ponderously declaimed the newly discovered verse—"Bread/ Milk /Cooking oil …"—as it became clear that the masterpiece was in fact a grocery list. The last, crushing line was: "And some fish, if you can find any."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235023/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Aleksandar Hemon</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:06:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Two books about the revolutions of 1989.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Everything comes around again, in the end; every debate needs to be held twice. For the past few years, the Russians have been conducting an extraordinary national argument about whether Stalin was bad, a question one would have thought was settled long ago. And now, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 1989, we have two books, both by eminent historians, both seeking to start an argument about whether there was an anti-Communist opposition in Central Europe. In Uncivil Society Stephen Kotkin, a Soviet historian at Princeton, makes an unusually strident version of the case that there was not. Konstantin Pleshakov, a Soviet historian at Mount Holyoke, presents a milder and more complicated version in There Is No Freedom Without Bread.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2234716/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Anne Applebaum</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:57:45 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Two biographies of Ayn Rand.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave. She regularly tops any list of books that Americans say have most influenced them. Since the great crash of 2008, her writing has had another Benzedrine rush, as Rush Limbaugh hails her as a prophetess. With her assertions that government is "evil" and selfishness is "the only virtue," she is the patron saint of the tea-partiers and the death panel doomsters. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4555" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4555" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Johann Hari</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Jeffrey L. Sheler's Prophet of Purpose: The Life of Rick Warren.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  There are those who come up with an innovative idea, develop the skills necessary to realize it, and use every bit of their creative capacity to make it succeed. Then there are those who believe that human beings have no power to change the world but are mere pawns directed by a supernatural force whose decisions are arbitrary and inscrutable. Finally, there are rarities like Rick Warren who fit into both categories at the same time.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233184/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Alan Wolfe</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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