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Beliefs: Hitchens Brothers’ Rift Starts With Religion
Peter and Christopher Hitchens have never been close, but perhaps nothing separates the brothers more than their views on faith.
 
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Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By Jonathan Weiner
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer examines the scientific battle against aging through the bizzare career of the English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.
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Up Front: Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese is the rare physician to succeed with both fiction and nonfiction.
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Book Review - Four Fish - By Paul Greenberg
Even as Paul Greenberg lays out the grim and complicated facts about the ravaging of our seas, he manages to sound some hopeful notes about the ultimate fate of fish.
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Lawrence Boadt, Priest, Publisher and Bible Scholar, Dies at 67
The Roman Catholic priest, publisher and Bible scholar used his study of the Old Testament as a vehicle for promoting understanding between Christians and Jews.
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Book Review - Telling Times - Writing and Living, 1954-2008 - By Nadine Gordimer
A half-century of essays by the Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer, whose major theme of “writing and living” has been opposition to apartheid.
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Turning Right
A biography of Norman Podhoretz and a history of the magazine he edited tell the story of the neoconservative movement.
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Book Review - The Fall of the House of Walworth - By Geoffrey O’Brien
Geoffrey O’Brien recalls the lurid scandal of a notorious 19th-century literary parricide.
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Book Review - Red Hook Road - By Ayelet Waldman
Joy and tragedy bring two families together in unexpected ways in Ayelet Waldman’s novel.
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Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover
This novel, narrated by two Midwestern farm wives, was inspired by a real journal.
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