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March 6, 2006
Keeping Up With the Dead

The confessions of an obit addict.

February 20, 2006
Come and Meet Those Dancing Feet

Marshall Berman’s history of Times Square hops, skips, and two-steps all over the twentieth century.

February 6, 2006
Report From Stroller Central

Ayelet Waldman�the writer New York moms love to hate�strikes back with a novel about Manhattan motherhood.

January 16, 2006
Stalin Grads

Two novelists find rich material in competing Soviet legacies: artistic genius and thuggish repression.

December 26, 2005
The Right Stuff

Marc Weingarten’s history of the New Journalism sets down the facts well. But wasn’t that the old journalism?

October 24, 2005
Case of the Benz

Rafi Zabor’s 'I, Wabenzi' is a wild ride through grief�until it hits a disappointing detour.

October 17, 2005
The Blue and the Gray

Joshua Wolf Shenk elegantly argues that Abraham Lincoln’s depression was the fire beneath his ambition.

September 5, 2005
Fly Like an Ego

In praise of self-indulgence.

August 22, 2005
The Smartest Guy in the Room

Edmund Wilson’s brilliance won him untold love and admiration, but for him, nothing beat a good book.

July 25, 2005
The Toughest Jews

Avner Mandelman’s stories capture the tortured psyche of Israel’s baby-boomers.