Books Are Better Without Pages

A man browses through books at the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford University Campus, Dec. 17, 2004 in Stanford, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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The paper book is dead. Long live the narrative.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Kindle owners buy twice as many books as non-Kindle owners. Just one of the many signs that while the paper book is dead, the narrative will live on.

If you are saying to yourself, “That sounds horrible. I hope books do not go away,” I ask you to consider the world’s poorest and most remote kids.

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My Comment: Alas .... this is true. Hardcover books will only be a novelty item in the next few decades.

Bomber County

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Contemplating Death From Above
In World War I, it was the trenches that captured the imagination of poets. In World War II, it was aerial combat.










Randall Jarrell's "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is one of the few poems of World War II to have achieved wide renown. It reads in its entirety: "From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, / And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. / Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, / I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. / When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."
As we are reminded in "Bomber








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Living Under Plastic

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Shored up against the glittering allure of memory’s slipstream, Living Under Plastic, Evelyn Lau’s fourth poetry collection, offers readers a fleeting glimpse of that which endures despite the diurnal dejectamenta pooling in the deluge of contemporary existence.

Most often enacted upon “a raft on a sea of nightmares” despite its highly dramatic emotions (especially of the hysterical variety) and hyper-traumatic events, Living Under Plastic lays it on the bottom line:

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SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY - Selected Papers of M.S. Swaminathan: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore-596224.

There are several ways of honouring men of eminence. Short of a Nobel, M.S. Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist, has received innumerable awards and honours. And now, the Indian Institute of Science publishing his selected papers as a part of their ‘Centenary Lecture Series' is an honour that would go a long way in inspiring science to serve society more and more.

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Punditry at the Drive-Thru

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Peter Beinart, The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (2006; repr., New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 320 pp., $14.95.
Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 496 pp., $27.99.

IT IS a safe bet that most readers of this magazine don’t much care for fast food, or that the minority that does views it as anything else but a guilty pleasure for themselves or a necessary concession to their advertisement-saturated, merchandise-craving children or grandchildren. The intellectual equivalent of this sensible preference for slow food should be for nuance and complexity. And yet in this age of the sound bite, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, multitasking and new media, the books that commercial publishers seem to want to publish, and that ambitious policy intellectuals aspire to write—which came first is probably best viewed as a chicken-and-egg question—are for the most part the intellectual equivalent of a meal at Burger King or Taco Bell. At first bite, tasty, appealing and seemingly complete; in the end, bloating, cloying and empty of genuine intellectual fortification.

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A cause for pause
The book ‘My Dog Tulip’ was bad enough, and now they’ve made it into a movie
By Alex Beam
Globe Staff / August 10, 2010



I read almost everything my friend the book critic Katherine Powers tells me to. So when she ordered me to read J.R. Ackerley’s cult novel “My Dog Tulip’’ several years ago, I did. I hated it from the get-go. If I read 30 pages, it was only to gather ammunition with which to revile her. Perhaps I should have read the review she wrote when “Tulip,’’ written in 1956, was first re-released in 1999. (It is being re-released again this month.) She called it the “[most] preeminently disgusting of all great dog books.’’





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Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America,

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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, Updated Edition
by Elliott J. Gorn
Cornell University Press, 336 pp., $19.95




John L. Sullivan, one of the most celebrated Americans of the nineteenth century, officially stepped into the ring for the final time on September 7, 1892. The flabby champion, a symbol of Gilded Age excesses, faced a fit San Franciscan with a perfect pompadour named James J. Corbett. “Gentleman Jim,” as he would eventually be known, learned to fight not in the streets but at a sparring club. He even had a few years of college behind him.


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Lorenz Of Arabia

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Lorenz Of Arabia
As a wartime strategy, Germany tried to foment a Grand Jihad in Muslim lands.









The Ottoman Empire took its time to die. Hovering around the death bed, the Great Powers of the late 19th century—Russia, France, Germany and Britain—were eager to have a share of the spoils and fearful that others might pre-empt them. None was so eager or so greedy as the German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II.





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The Girls of Murder City

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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry. 320 pages. Viking Adult. $25.95.









Part of Chicago froze in the 1930s. I’ve been thinking of my old home city of Chicago a lot lately, and of my new home in Berlin. The thread that ties them together seems to be that they’re both stuck in time. In the same time. They have one foot in this chaotic contemporary period, but the other is still in the 1920s and early ’30s, each summed up as a Bob Fosse experience (Chicago and Cabaret).


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The Canadian Century

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In The Canadian Century, Brian Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis have combined a sharp assessment of contemporary public policy with a reinterpretation of a major political figure, Wilfrid Laurier.

The authors present an ambitious argument: Laurier’s principles of economic freedom and the rule of law, limited government, confident engagement with the United States and free trade are advanced as dogmatic certainties that can be used to ensure our national success, dominance even, in the 21st century. Conversely, it is by deviating from this framework that the country has in the past been derailed by protectionism, introspection and a welfare state run amok.

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FROM WINNING THE WAR TO WINNING PEACE

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Rebuilding of Sri Lanka
NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN
Rajapaksa appears more focussed on economic development, including that of the Tamil-dominated North .









FROM WINNING THE WAR TO WINNING PEACE - Post-War Rebuilding of the Society in Sri Lanka: Edited by V.R. Raghvan; Centre for Security Analysis, 9-B, Chesney Nilgiri, 71, Ethiraj Salai, Chennai-600008. Price not mentioned.
A POWDERKEG IN PARADISE - Lost Opportunity for Peace in Sri Lanka: Jon Oskar Solnes; Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., A-149, Main Vikas Marg, Delhi-110092. Rs. 750.





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A Cornucopia of Darwinian Gems

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In 1990, Richard Milner published The Encyclopedia of Evolution: Humanity’s Search for its Origins (Facts-on-File Publications, New York, 481 pp.)

With a charming foreword by his childhood friend and classmate Stephen Jay Gould, the book was a smorgasbord of delightful anecdotes and stories about not only science and evolutionism, but also a startling array of other related topics as well. It was organized in an encyclopedia format, with separate topics arranged in alphabetical, rather than thematic order, so it was ideal for browsing. Its quirky but engaging approach was unique among all the books about evolution, most of which are more scholarly tomes that march through only serious topics in a natural, logical order. As such, it was sui generis, a book unlike any other, reflecting both Milner’s erudition and also his love of pop culture as well as science. In 1990, it was named by Choice “the best reference book of the year.”





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A Short History of Celebrity

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Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote
From Lord Byron's escapades to Madonna's power dynamics—what is the fascination of the glittering famous?









The late anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously defined culture as an "ensemble of stories we tell about ourselves." By that reckoning, the tales of "Entertainment Tonight" are as much a part of culture as a Shakespeare play, and potentially just as meaningful.
It is not an altogether happy thought and one that, in minds less discerning than Geertz's, helped license a parade of academic folly marching under the banner of "cultural studies." From analyses of the power dynamics of Madonna to deconstructions of "Gilligan's Island," the field has produced work to make even the forgiving reader want to reach for a gun.


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CHURCHILL’S EMPIRE
The World That Made Him and the World He Made
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Winston Churchill is remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour — but what if he also led the country through her most shameful one? What if, in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a raw white supremacy and a concentration camp network of his own? This question burns through Richard Toye’s superb, unsettling new history, “Churchill’s Empire” — and is even seeping into the Oval Office.








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The internet: is it changing the way we think?
American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. Below, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion.

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The Uses of Pessimism

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The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope.

By Roger Scruton Atlantic Books, 232pp, $35 .

IDEAS are big again. A decade of Islamic terrorism, US-led wars and financial excess has sent intellectuals back to the archives to check the small print on the social contract.
Evangelical progressives, evangelical conservatives, even evangelicals, set out their stalls in the marketplace of ideas, with many an intellectual trinket to tempt the jaded passer-by.
Moreover, communism, the ideology whose death, according to American theorist Francis Fukuyama, was supposed to herald the end of ideology, is undergoing a modest recrudescence, with philosophers such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek leading the way. The liberal-democratic consensus is showing signs of strain. Intellectuals are going back to the future.

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Into the Deep Street

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Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets 1938-2008by Jennie Feldman and Stephen Romer
Strolling Out from the Self.

The anthology Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets 1938-2008 differs from standard representative gatherings of a national poetry from a given period. Jennie Feldman and Stephen Romer, who are both fine British poets as well as gifted translators, have an important point to make. They focus on a "definite lignee" of modern French verse, as Romer declares in his perspicacious introduction; that is, on six poets who have expressed their debt to and admiration for Jean Follain (1903-1971), the seventh and founding member as it were, of this loosely defined, unofficial group. Linked by this affiliation, Follain's "descendants" comprise Henri Thomas (1913 -1993), Philippe Jaccottet (1925- ), Jacques Reda (1929- ),

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THE TRYST BETRAYED

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A quintessential “outsider”
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR
Mehta had a complex story to tell as his career as a diplomat spanned tumultuous times.







Imagine you are sitting down at 7 p.m. for what promises to be a memorable dinner. What do you have for starter? Smoked trout fillet with celeriac remoulade and chive dressing. Then you're startled to find that poached fillet of brill with white wine sauce follows, and thereafter ballantine of salmon with warm ratatouille dressing. Of course, scintillating conversation ensues all through, over the dry white bordeaux, and soon it is 9.30 p.m. Just as you eagerly await the main course listed in the menu — braised lamb shank with root vegetables, wild mushrooms, and risotto — the dessert is served.








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What Hope?

From : The Book

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Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century
by Amy Wax
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 190 pp., $36.75

This book is depressing because it is so persuasive. There is a school of thought in America which argues that the government must be the main force that provides help to the black community. This shibboleth is predicated upon another one: that such government efforts will make a serious difference in disparities between blacks and whites. Amy Wax not only argues that such efforts have failed, she also suggests that such efforts cannot bring equality, and therefore must be abandoned. Wax identifies the illusion that mars American thinking on this subject as the myth of reverse causation—that if racism was the cause of a problem, then eliminating racism will solve it. If only this were true. But it isn’t true: racism can set in motion cultural patterns that take on a life of their own.

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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Christopher Tayler enjoys short pieces from an American original.







Paul Klee famously thought of drawing as "taking a line for a walk". Lydia Davis, an American short-story writer, or writer of short texts ambiguously situated between fiction, jeux d'esprit, prose poetry and philosophy, seems to have a similar approach to what she does. Sometimes she takes a word for a walk, as in "Examples of Remember", which reads:





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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $7.99.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.

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CHARLIE ST. CLOUD, by Ben Sherwood. (Bantam, $7.99.) Years after a man survives a car crash that kills his brother, their bond endures; originally published as "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud."

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James Lees-Milne

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Lees-Milne (1908-1997) began to keep a diary during the middle years of World War II. The first four volumes cover the 1940s in considerable detail, and all take their titles from Coleridge:







First a confession: the works to which I lose my heart tend to be . . . confessional. Intimate. Set down in the first person singular. Oh, I revere Dante, Dostoevsky, and Dickens, and would probably pick either Jane Austen, P. G. Wodehouse, or Evelyn Waugh as the most perfect writer of English prose, and I regard Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Melville's Moby-Dick as the greatest novels in the world. Nothing surprising there. But if first given the Bible, Shakespeare, and a fat anthology of lyric poetry (Sappho to Larkin), and then asked to name my 10 favorite books, I would probably choose the following:


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The General

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The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved by Jonathan Fenby
Julian Jackson reads a biography that helps to solve de Gaulle's mysteries.

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The Tyranny of Guilt

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The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochismby Pascal Bruckner, trans Steven Rendall (Princeton, £18.95)

According to Pascal Bruckner, we in the west suffer from neurotic guilt, a condition imposed upon us by the high priests of the left. This secular clerisy are heirs to the Christian tradition of original sin, which universalised guilt by claiming that humans are fallen and must redeem themselves. Nietzsche denounced Christian guilt as a psychic evil which forces man’s will to power in on himself. Pascal Bruckner is a latter-day Nietzschean who gives no quarter when it comes to excoriating our new moral elite.

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The Madonnas of Echo Park

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This debut novel about the intersecting lives of Mexican-Americans in East Los Angeles deftly tackles questions of culture, belonging, and identity.








This is the line that opens Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park. Like the rest of Skyhorse’s rich and textured story, it comes from the unlikeliest of sources: a middle-aged undocumented Mexican day laborer named Hector, who must compete with workers half his age for a spot on a construction crew each morning.
As the intricate tale unwinds, we’re offered glimpses of the “land” that Hector speaks of – Echo Park, a Mexican neighborhood in East Los Angeles – from the points of view of eight residents, whose ordinary, working-class lives intersect under often extraordinary circumstances.



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Amazon launches two new, cheaper Kindles

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Online book giant starts forcing prices of dedicated e-readers lower in wake of iPad’s success.

Jeff Bezos isn't just confident you'll want a Kindle e-book reader. The CEO of Amazon.com is bracing for a future in which you'll also want ones for your kid heading to college, your spouse in a book club and perhaps even Grandpa.
And despite increased competition from Apple Inc.’s flashy iPad and other e-readers, that future could be coming soon – Aug. 27, actually, when online retailer Amazon.com Inc. releases two new Kindle models.

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Infinite Life

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Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism And Mathematical Creativity
By Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
(Belknap Press, 239 pp., $25.95)

A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded, but it must have been stimulated by experiences such as these. It may have merged in the mind of an ancient progenitor with thoughts of a God, a possessor of unlimited might, an infinite being itself. But whether or not the idea of God was born with the first thoughts of what cannot be counted, this wonderful book by an American historian of science and a French mathematician teaches us that eons later, the divine and the infinite remain closely entangled. A mathematical understanding of infinity was a conundrum for rationalists, who believed it could be mastered by using only the methods of scientific logic, unsullied by eschatology or religion. But as Jean-Michel Kantor and Loren Graham show, they were wrong. Centuries after Bacon and Descartes, and the birth of the scientific method of the moderns, mysticism came to the rescue of one of the most intractable problems posed by abstract human thought. It was mysticism, not rationalism, that helped to crack infinity.

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INDIA AND CHINA

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This book tracks the course the two neighbours have traversed over the past 60 years .








INDIA AND CHINA - Neighbours, Strangers: Edited by Ira Pande; HarperCollins, A-53, Sector 57, Noida-201301. Rs. 699.
China and India are widely seen as the rising powers set to steer the U.S.-dominated international arena towards Asian ascendancy in this century. Indians, however, concede that China has forged far ahead of India on a whole gamut of indices — economic, social, military, space, science and technology. Comparisons may be odious, but they must spur the trailing competitor on. The two countries were, more or less, on a par when they set out on their different courses six decades ago. India is not aiming to catch up with China as a global heavy-weight, but rather to consolidate itself as a benign regional power with global influence.





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The Marrying Kind

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Marriage and Other Acts of Charityby Kate BraestrupLittle, Brown, 217 pp., $24.99

The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Todayby Andrew J. CherlinVintage, 288 pp., $16.00

Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Loveby Helen FisherHolt, 305 pp., $15.00
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriageby Elizabeth GilbertViking, 285 pp., $26.95

Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enoughby Lori GottliebDutton, 322 pp., $25.95

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Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
Reading the first three of these books about marriage, you might be tempted to reflect that there’s nothing new under the sun. Books of advice about finding love and keeping it have been around, offering formulas and nostrums to readers and believers, since the beginning of print, and so have statistics about the demise of marriage. But Committed and Marry Him, the two books by Elizabeth Gilbert and Lori Gottlieb, suggest that what is new is the mindset of the intended readers. What do we take from the new sensibilities of today’s authors and readers, the thirty-somethings weighing these age-old issues? Has anything really changed?

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fatesby Wes Moore.

Life ChancesA review by Rich Benjamin
Fatherhood is a touchy subject among black American men. Well over half of black kids grow up in a household without a dad. No wonder black public figures ranging from Louis Farrakhan to Bill Cosby to President Barack Obama have exhorted black men to "step up" and be responsible fathers. Some liberal advocates dismiss these pleas as bootstrap sermons that blame poor blacks for systemic problems. Others, conservative and liberal alike, counter that the three pillars that once bolstered black Americans -- community, school, and family -- are now miserably failing at-risk black kids, not least because of the plague of deadbeat dads.

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The Industrial Enlightenment put knowledge in the service of production, changing the course of history.

In the coming days and weeks, the Hamptons, the Vineyard and all the other August escapes from workaday life will likely see a bull market in pessimism as financiers and powerbrokers reach into their summer book bags to relive the recession or look ahead to even greater disaster. "Lofty geo- globaloney tomes on the future of the world" is how the economist Nouriel Roubini has described his summer reading list. Alan Greenspan has said that he will delve into "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World," which sounds more like a penance than poolside pleasure.








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What do you think spies are: priests, saints, martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives." The person responsible for this bitter rant is Alec Leamas, the deadpan fiftysomething protagonist of John le Carré's 1963 novel The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. We will refer to it as The Spy from now on, for brevity's sake, but it's worth starting any current assessment of the novel with something of a thought-experiment.

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Merchants of Doubt

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Merchants of Doubt might be one of the most important books of the year.

Exhaustively researched and documented, it explains how over the past several decades mercenary scientists have partnered with tobacco companies and chemical corporations to help them convince the public that their products are safe – even when solid science proves otherwise.






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More than skin deep

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For summer reading enthusiasts, this book should come with a warning: only to be read at the beach with a flagon of sunscreen to protect your tender human tissue because you will be mesmerized by this ornately wrought story set in late-18th-century Venice and Peru.

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