Omnivore
Market thinking so permeates our lives
From Atlantis, Carmen Portero Munoz (Cordoba): Noun-noun Euphemisms in the Language of the Global Financial Crisis. Paul Krugman on how Ben Bernanke has the power, and the obligation, to end the slump and the human misery that comes with it — so what’s stopping him? No end in sight: James Surowiecki on why long-term unemployment hurts us all. From the Russell Sage Foundation, a forum on social class in America. The purpose of spectacular wealth, according to a spectacularly wealthy guy: Edward
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Paper Trail
Prolific Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes died at a hospital in Mexico City on Tuesday at the age of eighty-three. One of the most influential members of the Latin American Boom movement, Fuentes was the author of over thirty books, including The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo, and The Crystal Frontier, as well as a political columnist and essayist. Though he was never granted a Nobel Prize, France did give him a National Order of Merit,
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Hobo Lit
Michael Sandlin America's attitudes toward its most destitute citizens have always been sharply polarized. Consider, for instance, the philosophical divide between Emerson's uncharitable self-reliance ("Are they my …- Coming of Age Leigh Stein
- Understanding North Korea Lee Ambrozy
- Remixology Judy Lillibridge
- Field of Screens Michael Thomsen
Daily Review
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace
Someone really should write a compelling history of the diary. Those books we often associate with childhood have been, after all, vehicles for some of the most illuminating accounts of history: Samuel Pepys had his famed journals of seventeenth-century life, John de … 
Interviews
Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman's latest novel, By Blood, tells the story of a psychologically unstable academic who while on a forced leave of absence in San Francisco discovers that he can hear a young woman's therapy sessions through the walls of his office, The professor gradually becomes obsessed with the patient, going so far as to surreptitiously help her uncover disturbing truths about her family history, All of this unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s San Francisco, a world that Ullman depicts through her narrator's troubled mind as an urban nightmare.
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- ANTHONY SHADID, the lead Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, died on …
- Joe Brainard achieved a singular position in the poetry world before his death from …
- "Taylor has had many biographers. Yet their books often reveal more about their authors …
- Indoctrination into the practices of modern motherhood can feel like showing up at …
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Excerpt
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio TabucchiItalian novelist Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Portugal last weekend at the age of 68. Tabucchi was the author of more than two dozen novels, including 1994's "Pereira Declares," and 1997's "The Missing Head of Damascenio Monteiro," a crime novel about the discovery of a headless man. Below is an excerpt from the beginning of "The Missing Head," courtesy of New Directions.
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