No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. His memory is preserved, imperfectly, through a shelf of books that Feder says have yet to capture her father's many-sided life.
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'Paranoia is a flower in the brain," asserts the incredibly named Perkus Tooth, nexus of all the strange happenings that run through Jonathan Lethem's very strange novel "Chronic City."
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A 17-mile-long circular tunnel lies beneath the French-Swiss border just outside Geneva. Parts of it are more than 500 feet below ground. The tunnel houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle collider on the planet.
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It's 1967 as "Invisible" begins. Adam Walker, a 20-year-old literature student at Columbia and aspiring poet, meets political science professor Rudolf Born and his temptress girlfriend, Margot, at a party.
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Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2. Pursuit Of Honor by Vince Flynn
3. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
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By Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. (Penguin)
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In her new biography of the fiercely independent author of "Little Women," screenwriter Harriet Reisen draws a lively, engrossing portrait of Louisa May Alcott's life that will appeal to the legions of women who grew up worshipping the book.
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Francine Prose's "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife" is, in effect, a biography of the book.
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"The pace of social change is too slow. At this rate it will be at least another generation before the major forms of segregation disappear. All of Africa will be free before the American Negro attains first-class citizenship."
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Although born in Egypt, Penelope Lively has spent most of her life in England, where she became known in the 1970s, first for children's books and then for novels for adults, many of which have received important literary accolades.
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With the playoffs underway and the World Series set to begin Oct. 28, baseball fans can enjoy books on everything from Yogi Berra to umpires to the only perfect game ever pitched in the World Series. Here are some recent publications:
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When Barbara Ehrenreich became a breast cancer patient, she found herself infuriated by the disease's upbeat, infantilizing culture of pink ribbons and teddy bears.
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The House On First Street: My New Orleans Story
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Fiction
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In her introduction to this year's 20-story collection, guest editor Alice Sebold writes, "Every story in the final selection deserves to be read.
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