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Bestselling books the week of 3/22/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Editor's Blog
Who needs church?The purpose of church may not be apparent in everyday life. But there comes a moment when we all wonder if everyday life is all there is. Church is waiting to help answer that question.
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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
Twenty-three essays showcase preeminent literary critic James Wood as a hungry, happy bookworm.
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Marilynne Robinson: Why are we so afraid?'Do we never expect to have a bad time?' Robinson asked an audience at Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing. 'Every generation or so, something goes haywire. It's human history.'
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Jonathan Safran Foer: "I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion"Jonathan Safran Foer spoke on God, prayer, writing, and film adaptations at Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing.
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Festival of Faith and Writing: the conference that brought John Updike, Salman Rushdie to western MichiganThis year's Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College included Jonathan Safran Foer, Marilynne Robinson, Chimimanda Ngoze Adichie, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Leila Aboulela.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/22/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Editor's Blog
Why the quality of literature mattersThe pen isn't any match for the sword in the short run. But in the long run -- sometimes the very long run -- words, not raw power, bend the curve of history.
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Write stuff: The workshop that shapes American literature
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, on its 75th anniversary, offers a window into the state of American letters.
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Téa Obreht wins the Orange Prize for "The Tiger's Wife"At 25, Obreht is the youngest writer to ever win the prestigious award for English-language fiction by women novelists.
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A slap at Philip Roth – or a dig at American writers?A Booker International Prize judge quits when the award goes to Philip Roth.
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5 books coming out in 2011 that you absolutely have to readThere are plenty of good books in the pipeline for early 2011, but these are among the very best.
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Is today's fiction irrelevant?The blogosphere debates: Are today's novels merely clever where they should be deep?
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Reader recommendation: Gilead
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God
This clever novel manages to blend existential ponderings with humor and sharp writing.
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Thanksgiving Day: Pilgrims were a surprisingly worldly, tolerant lot
Pilgrims who braved the Mayflower were profoundly shaped by their 11 years in Leiden, Netherlands, where they arrived 400 years ago this year. Deeply devout, they were also some of the most tolerant among Puritan groups who headed to the new world.
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Gilead
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All the Living
A young woman on a lonely farm struggles with competing desires for love and freedom in this thoughtful debut novel.
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Amid rumors about Post book section, their critic wins a prize -
Best novels of 2008
The Monitor’s annual gift guide to the best fiction books of 2008.
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National Book Award prizes announced
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Marilynne Robinson takes another look at the lost son of 'Gilead.'
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Oh, those lovely fall books!
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