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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Culture January 1, 1 Culture January 1, 1 Culture January 1, 1 Culture January 1, 1 Culture January 1, 1 Fiction January 1, 1
Jul 25, 2013 · The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Love, Actually: “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” Adelle Waldman has cleverly chosen to tell the story of a younger generation’s romantic chaos not from the pe...
The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Culture January 1, 1 One day, walking back to the office after a bibulous lunch, Christopher Beha sees Benjamin Franklin walking beside him:
Steven Pinker offers a curiously foreshortened account of humanity’s irenic urges – Douglas P. Fry
Mar 18, 2011 · The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Few crimes are more harshly forbidden in the Old Testament than sacrifice to the god Moloch (for which see Leviticus 18.21, 20.1-5). The sacrifice referred to w...
The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. It seems foolish, if not downright irresponsible to feel good about the future in 2010. The disasters of the last decade piled up fast, and apocalyptic fear is now a standard ...
The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. The narrator of Argentine novelist César Aira’s 2004 short story “The Cart,” himself a writer, describes the affinity he feels for an errant shopping trolley that can move on ...
The fiction of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, one of Russia’s most celebrated living writers, can be divided into two categories. Her realistic work deals mostly with the lives of Soviet women, presenting a picture bleak en...
He finds Ruth’s fundamentalism hypocritical and her Republicanism less than coherent, but he has great affection for her: “She certainly has welcomed me with open arms into her family.