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Margaret Atwood, In Other Worl…
A peek into the creative landscape of one of our greatest writers Margare… more »
Ruth Rendell, Some Lie and Som…
It's hard to decide what's more fun in Some Lie and Some Die, Ruth Rendel… more »
Tana French, The Likeness…
Dublin is one of the great literary cities, so it is surprising that rela… more »
Henning Mankell, The Troubled …
For those of us who have followed Kurt Wallander, Sweden's most morosely … more »
Alexander McCall Smith, The No…
McCall Smith's novels have become something of a cottage industry (there … more »
International Mysteries
High summer. The best time of year for traveling to foreign lands —… more »
Jo Nesbo, The Snowman
Oslo's most tortured detective solves a gruesome crime The Snowman begins… more »
Charles Bradley, No Time for D…
Before CDs, before the Internet, soul music freaks had to rely on serendi… more »
Charles Bradley, No Time for D…
Before CDs, before the Internet, soul music freaks had to rely on serendi… more »
Rosanne Cash
Fans of Cash family music and lore may be surprised that Rosanne Cash's n… more »
Queer Books
Those who have been ignored within the dominant cultural narrative must c… more »
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22…
The next best thing to raising a glass or two with the famous gadfly hims… more »
Six Degrees of Pride and Preju…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
Tainted Love: An Anti-Valentin…
Valentine's Day is the worst. If you're single, forget it. Even if you de… more »
Henning Mankell, The Man from …
A creepy Swedish whodunit that explores globalism, the results of youthfu… more »
Who Is…Nneka
Remember way back in the late '80s and early '90s, when artists w… more »
Nneka, Concrete Jungle…
For those of us awaiting a return of the golden age of women in hip-hop (… more »
Icon: Nina Simone
To say Nina Simone was "one of a kind" is an understatement. Her particul… more »
Ellen Ruppel Shell
How many of us have stopped in at Old Navy or Target on the way home from… more »
Philly Soul, Pt. 2
The Sound of Philadelphia is the sound of home to me. I grew up in Philly… more »
Ron Currie
For a purveyor of doom and gloom, Ron Currie Jr. is an awfully nice guy. … more »
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, an…
A fascinating and essential book on the nature of human progress I didn't… more »
Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked…
The wry bard of male pop culture obsession returns to music For those Hig… more »
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Pl…
Larsson's hard-boiled and offbeat Millennium trilogy ticks along with… more »
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By Jess Sauer, eMusic Contributor
The idea that diverse languages are a form of divine punishment, serving only to separate us, is a popular one in numerous mythologies and religious traditions. In Genesis, humanity is unified by a common tongue… more »
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