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March 29, 2008

04:12
Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74
Mr. Fagles was a renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil became unlikely best sellers.
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02:03
Eyes Wide Open
Tobias Wolff’s stories are alert for moments of revelation.
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01:32
Death in the Pacific
Max Hastings shows how Japanese madness met American ruthlessness in the final year of World War II.
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01:19
She, Robot
Jeanette Winterson’s novel imagines a post-apocalyptic future.
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01:14
Uncivil Action
John Grisham sticks with his formula in his latest legal thriller, while making an important point about how the justice system is threatened by big-money gutter politics.
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00:39
The Saturday Profile: Japanese Author Guides Women to ‘Dignity,’ but Others See Dullness
Mariko Bando’s book, “The Dignity of a Woman,” has become one of Japan’s biggest best sellers in decades, but critics say it reinforces the view that women should be subservient.
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00:05
The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Lemur
Chapter 12: Here was nothing more Terri Taylor could give John Glass beyond the name Charles Varriker, which kept cropping up with interesting regularity.
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00:05
Essay: It’s Not You, It’s Your Books
Among the bookish, even casual literary references can turn into romantic deal breakers.
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March 28, 2008

23:37
Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal
A recent publishing agreement is lucrative and shocking.
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23:28
Possessed: What Moral Turpitude Looks Like
A dandy is blackballed by Customs, thanks in part to a tall hat.
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22:12
Nonfiction Chronicle
Reviews of new nonfiction by Terese Svoboda, Christina Binkley, Chandler Burr and Robert S. Bennett.
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20:34
Archive: Book Review Podcast
This week: Evan Thomas on Max Hastings’s World War II history, “Retribution”; Mary Roach, author of “Bonk”; Rachel Donadio on love and literary taste; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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17:32
Footsteps | Milan Kundera’s Prague: Trumping the Unbearable Darkness of History
A novel set in 1968 puts current-day Prague in a new perspective.
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17:18
A Veteran MAD Man Remains in the Fold
For more than 40 years, a sly course in American history, courtesy of the master of the fold-in.
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15:55
In Memoriam
Mary Jo Bang’s new poems grapple with the death of her son.
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15:29
Guess Who’s Coming to Power
China and the European Union have joined the United States as global players, says a young foreign-policy scholar.
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13:16
The War on Error
Charles Ferguson analyzes America’s missteps in Iraq.
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03:05
Climb Every Mountain
As depicted in a memoir and a biography, Julie Andrews’s life was not always sunny.
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03:01
Sexual Advances
Mary Roach investigates — comprehensively — the latest in sex research.
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