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Love, Life and Death in Modern Times—So Much for That

Sunday, April 11th, 2010
by Tamara Moscowitz on Living Around

American-born Lionel Shriver has been an inadvertent traveler, who, after a six-month bike tour of Western Europe followed by another six month stint in Israel

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The Amazing Staying Power of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around

Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, a novel about the pre-Civil Rights South, has dominated the bestseller lists for a year. The story’s protagonist, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan,

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Romantic Reads for Valentine’s Day — And Any Day

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
by Robin Weaver on Reading Around

Rupert Brooke, the World War I poet, once wrote in thinking of his beloved, “Today, I have been happy. I held a memory of you.”

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Woman Around Town: Marni Galison—From Law to Love

Sunday, August 16th, 2009
by Robin Weaver on Woman Around Town

By Robin Weaver How often have we heard: Follow your dream? For Marni Galison, the decision to do just that started on a trip to

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