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While here are only two freestanding book reviews in this fair country, we do have a wealth of best book lists. Here is a meta-list: The Best of the Best Books of 2009.

In the United States wets and drys are unable to agree about alcohol. In the Valley of the Nile it is water that keeps England and Egypt from coming to an understanding.

Maybe the publication of Ford County means that short stories are making a comeback.

For this market to work, it’ll take a great effort from both The Atlantic and Amazon. (Oh, and $3.99 for a short story? Really?)

It’s now clear that it’s not true that Goldman Sachs executives arming themselves against an uprising. But neither the news outlet nor author Alice Schroeder are talking.

Does the motivation behind my philanthropic giving matter? If so, is it wrong to give out of guilt?

The Original of Laura is an obviously incomplete work, shepherded and huckstered into the marketplace by Nabokov’s greedy son.

Five books that portray contemporary life in Afghanistan, providing a perspective that’s essential to understanding the war.

Alice Schroeder’s claim is being repeated by major media outlets around the world. But it seems awfully unlikely.