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When Poetry Meets Politics
Robert Hass' poetic journey.  
Nathan Heller   Nov 01, 2007   Book Blitz  
I Was Gordon Lish's Editor
Not that he let me do any editing.  
Gerald Howard   Oct 31, 2007   Book Blitz  
Is It a Chamber Pot?
Nope! A century-old literary mystery, solved.  
Joshua Glenn   Oct 31, 2007   Book Blitz  
The Invisible Lesbian
Challenging the myth of merit-based publishing.  
Sarah Schulman   Oct 31, 2007   Book Blitz  
Paradise Lost
Cees Nooteboom takes on our jet-fueled millennium.  
Jess Row   Oct 31, 2007   Book Blitz  
The Lost Art of the Rant
How the Web revived a storied tradition of expletive-laced tirades.  
Daniel Seidel   Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
No Second Chances
The bracing vision of William Trevor.  
Emily Johnston   Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
Zuckerman Unbound
What should we make of Philip Roth's alter ego in his declining years?  
Stephen Metcalf   Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
What's Love Got To Do With It?
Mario Vargas Llosa dissects an obsession.  
Michael Wood   Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
The Great Novel I Never Read
The Sound and the Fury, Swann's Way, and other books that novelists skipped.  
  Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
Fall Fiction Week at Slate
Slate's annual look at the novel.  
  Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
Fall Books
Our take on this season's books.  
Michael Agger, Tyler Cowen, Timothy Noah, Amanda Schaffer, Jack Shafer, Dana Stevens and John Swansburg   Oct 30, 2007   Book Blitz  
For Whom the Shill Toils
Hemingway's lost work for Ringling Bros. and Ballantine Ale.  
Paul Devlin   Oct 13, 2006   Book Blitz  
Yokely-Dokely America
The disgracefulness of Charles Frazier.  
Stephen Metcalf   Oct 12, 2006   Book Blitz  
Overlooked Fiction
 Bloggers and booksellers recommend their favorite little-known reads.  
  Oct 12, 2006   Book Blitz  
Governess Gone Goth
A new edition of Jane Eyre reveals its truly subversive message.  
Ann Hulbert   Oct 12, 2006   Book Blitz  
American Ingenious
The sly brilliance of experimental novelist Lynne Tillman.  
Jessica Winter   Oct 12, 2006   Book Blitz  
Surprising Powers
Richard Powers' scientific humanism.  
Stephen Burt   Oct 11, 2006   Book Blitz  
The Mother Load
Edna O'Brien's dark look at the mother-daughter bond.  
Claire Dederer   Oct 11, 2006   Book Blitz  
The Novel, 2.0
Why The Sopranos is great modern fiction.  
Walter Kirn and Gary Shteyngart   Oct 10, 2006   Book Blitz  
Novel Pleasures
Fall Fiction Week at Slate.  
  Oct 10, 2006   Book Blitz  
The Impermanent Period
Richard Ford's modern-day Hamlet.  
Blake Bailey   Oct 10, 2006   Book Blitz  
Men at Work
The literary masculinity of Cormac McCarthy.  
Jennifer Egan   Oct 10, 2006   Book Blitz  
Reading Faulkner With Oprah
It's underrated.  
Meghan O'Rourke   Sep 15, 2005   Book Blitz  
The Plot Doesn't Thicken
Comparing J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Denton Welch's A Voice Through a Cloud.  
Francine Prose   Sep 14, 2005   Book Blitz  
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