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Top Picks: Henri the cat's philosophical musings, HBO's specials on childhood obesity, and more
A PBS documentary explores the life of ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro, Venmo lets phone users transfer money from one device to another, and more top picks.
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Chapter & Verse Chinua Achebe is remembered as the 'father of modern African literature'
'Things Fall Apart' author Chinua Achebe wrote his first book in 1958 and won awards for his work that included the Man Booker International Prize.
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Chapter & Verse Nashville turns Poetry in Motion program into contest for local poets
Previous years saw cities draping buses and subway cars with text from poems by famous writers. Now the Music City is asking a panel to choose works by local writers for display.
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Moving toward the correct answer on this one
Looking to settle the toward vs. towards question, the Monitor’s language columnist discovers the excrescent “t.”
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Author and essayist Colm Tóibín explores the ways that writers' families influence their work.
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Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts
In 'Life Sentences,' author and critic William H. Gass entrances the reader with his lilting prose and skilled literary criticism.
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"One City, One Book" – what 5 cities chose to read
Collective reading is alive and well in the 2000s – thanks to large-scale online book clubs (think "One Book, One Twitter," for example) and also to community “One City, One Book” programs which encourage an entire metropolis to read the same book at the same time. What are cities reading this year? Here are the 2011 picks of five participating cities – all of them apparently drawn to books with strong cultural themes .
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Has Ron Paul become electable?
In a head-to-head matchup with Obama, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is within striking distance, a new Gallup poll shows. But Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are running stronger.
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Opinion: The Ben Franklin solution for the coming age of scarcity
The basic human struggle for freedom, food, and energy will intensify on a global scale over the next few years. Doing more with less must become our mantra.
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Peace isn't just the absence of war
From war to crime to political disputes, conflicts dominate the news. When the dust settles, people hunger for peace. But without 10,000 small acts that build peace, conflict too easily returns.
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St. Patrick's Day: 5 great books that celebrate Ireland
What should you read on St. Patrick's Day? If you're hoping to celebrate Ireland with a book in hand, the hardest part will be figuring out which one, as the Emerald Isle has long been a wildly prolific source of inspiration to writers. And so to my earlier list of 10 best books about Ireland (which I still stand by), I can easily add five more.
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Silk Parachute
The latest collection of essays by quintessential New Yorker writer John McPhee includes some of his most personal writing to date.
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Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann’s evocative new novel imagines how it felt to watch Philippe Petit from below.
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Classic review: Ireland
A history of Ireland by the people who know it best - the storytellers.
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Poe: A Life Cut Short.
A concise new biography marks the 200th birthday of Edgar Allen Poe.
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No poetic justice for the US?
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Portraits from Ireland's fringe
A revealing look at a nomadic group, the Travellers, was decades in the making.
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Essay: Need a new password? Here's literary help.
Be inventive when changing those computer passwords every few months.
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