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Mother's Day 2013: 10 best books

Mother's Day 2013: 10 best new books for all kinds of moms
5 memoirs to add to your 2013 reading list

A new crop of memoirs takes readers to the worlds authors once knew.
World's five largest companies

For the first time in nearly a decade, the world’s five largest public companies are all American affair These are the Top 5, as of mid-April 2013.
2013 Pulitzer Prize winners: 4 excellent books

Months before the Pulitzer Prize committee got there, the Monitor's book critics had already let readers know that these four books were something special. Here's why.
3 of spring's most anticipated novels

From the latest novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout to a new novel by legendary author James Salter, this fiction roundup includes some of spring's most anticipated titles.

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In celebration of the "farmer poet"
Japanese dare to ask: Do we really need an emperor?

This week, the Imperial Household Agency curtailed the emperor's activities amid rising evidence of stress in the royal household.
USA
John Updike: A look back
99 years of Elliott Carter's masterpieces in 5 days

Whether listening to an opera or a concerto, this composer inspires and intrigues.
What Obama Means

A cultural survey of the history of race relations in the U.S.
Classic review: Lincoln

A biography as tall as Lincoln himself.
People of the Book
An Evening of Long Goodbyes

A penniless aristocrat is forced into the workforce to save his estate.
The artist who created the White House Christmas card

Landscape painter Tim Lawson re-created the view from the Truman balcony for a holiday card that the Bushes sent to friends and dignitaries around the world.
Obama chooses his poet
Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

Alexander McCall Smith's latest witty novel, Boston Symphony music ready for your iPod, 'Man on Wire' out on DVD, and more.
Should we nationalize the Big Three?

As lawmakers debate a bailout package for the troubled Big Three automakers this week, we're seeing a word rarely spotted north of Venezuela or west of Scandinavia: nationalization.
Best novels of 2008

The Monitor’s annual gift guide to the best fiction books of 2008.
The books authors have on their Christmas lists
Our first century

A mandate to 'lighten' still drives the Monitor at the dawn of its second 100 years.
Orientalist paintings take a tour of modern Middle East

Exhibition of 19th-century visions of the 'exotic' Orient recalls the heavy history of colonialism.
The life and work of Studs Terkel
Obama: You don't endorse me? You're off the plane!
Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions.
Broadway measures the mood and pulls out dark revivals

Fall theater opens with classics such as Chekhov's 'The Seagull' and Miller's 'All My Sons,' plus a little light relief in 'Billy Elliot' and 'Shrek.'
U.S. House honors Monitor's centennial

Resolution cites 'unselfish service through journalism'
Opinion: The evolution of the American dream

There's a sense of skepticism about it now.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman exhorts us to unite to fight global warming and excess consumption.
Indignation

Philip Roth's new novel just rails against religion in 1950s America.