Reading between the lines.

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• The Bratty Bystander Lucia Joyce was a failed writer, dancer, and artist—so why does a new biography make her out to be a genius?
  Katie Roiphe Dec. 23, 2003
  
• Rabbit, Race John Updike's colossal ambition.
  Sam Tanenhaus Dec. 4, 2003
  
• The Storyteller's New Clothes A new translation of Hans Christian Andersen.
  Adam Kirsch Nov. 26, 2003
  
• XXX Martin Amis wonders if pornography is ruining your life.
  Christopher Caldwell Nov. 18, 2003
  
• Paper Trail The true legacy of Marianne Moore, modernist monument.
  Stephen Burt Nov. 11, 2003
  
• Double Take Can we still see Goya's paintings the way he meant us to?
  Steven Henry Madoff Nov. 7, 2003
  
• Old-World Style Shirley Hazzard's long-awaited novel.
  Judith Shulevitz Oct. 30, 2003
  
• The Secret Lives of Dentists How Yu Hua's brutal novels reflect the transformation of literary China.
  Nell Freudenberger Oct. 24, 2003
  
• Man Out of Time John Clare was once as famous a poet as John Keats. What happened?
  Christopher Caldwell Oct. 17, 2003
  
• Clark vs. Bush The newest Democratic candidate rips into President Bush in Winning Modern Wars.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 1, 2003
  
• The Material Girl Gets Immaterial The social nuances of The English Roses.
  Polly Shulman Sept. 30, 2003
  
• Blind Wit James Thurber's tragedy.
  Wilfrid Sheed Sept. 18, 2003
  
• The Marriage Trap A new book wrestles with monogamy and its modern discontents.
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 4, 2003
  
• The Skeptical Believer Lester Bangs forged a career of passionate excess, but his skepticism made him great.
  Sasha Frere-Jones Aug. 29, 2003
  
• Trailer Joes Do two new books on trailer parks signal the second glorious age of the RV?
  Mark Van de Walle Aug. 18, 2003
  
• Fatal Agreement The new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style wrestles with grammar.
  Gary Lutz Aug. 6, 2003
  
• The Unreliable Superego Adam Phillips' revealing new edition of Freud.
  Adam Kirsch July 31, 2003
  
• A Vast Right-Wing Cry of Treason In her new book, Ann Coulter gets McCarthy right—and makes conservatives mad.
  Sam Tanenhaus July 24, 2003
  
• A Life's Study Why Robert Lowell is America's most important career poet.
  A.O. Scott June 20, 2003
  
• Lapland Photographer Juliana Beasley documents the new art of lap-dancing.
  Elisabeth Eaves June 17, 2003
  
• Glam Girl Meet Hillary Clinton's feminine side in her turgid new memoir.
  Chris Suellentrop June 12, 2003
  
• In a Dark Wood Is the esteemed literary critic's novel just too well-written?
  Morris Dickstein May 30, 2003
  
• Unmarked Monuments The legacy of the Gulag is everywhere, so why don't we know more about it?
  Stephen Kotkin May 27, 2003
  
• Glass Houses Stephen Glass still doesn't believe in the world around him.
  Hanna Rosin May 21, 2003
  
• Insidious Sid Sid Blumenthal rearranges facts and besmirches the character of his fellow journalists. And he wonders why people dislike him.
  Michael Isikoff May 20, 2003
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Sid Blumenthal's personality problem.
  Timothy Noah May 20, 2003
  
• The War Room What Robert Dallek's new biography doesn't tell you about JFK and Vietnam.
  Fred Kaplan May 19, 2003
  
• My Son, the Robot Will technology end human life as we know it? Yes, says Bill McKibben.
  Jim Holt May 16, 2003
  
• 24-Hour War Is Christopher Logue a genius or a madman?
  Jim Lewis May 13, 2003
  
• Operation Smiley Jane Smiley's struggle to write a great American novel.
  Christopher Caldwell May 6, 2003
  
• Joy to the World What made Frank O'Hara great?
  Dan Chiasson April 28, 2003
  
• A Heart-Stopping Work of Sentimentality How James Frey's addiction memoir fails to come clean.
  Chris Lehmann April 21, 2003
  
• The Unquiet American The mysteries of Guy Waterman's suicide.
  Brad Wieners April 9, 2003