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Paul Auster's New Novel Ruminates on Post-9/11 Family Schisms

By David Jager

NOW Magazine | September 8, 2008

Auster's new novel ruminates on the fault lines and schisms within a marriage, a family and the landscape of post-9/11 America.

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Tags: Fiction Reviews, Man in the Dark, Paul Auster

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'The Bible Salesman' is a Rollicking Readnew

Borrowing Scriptural tropes and themes from Southern literature and folklore, Clyde Edgerton weaves a wryly amusing Southern gothic tale about faith, the perils of gullibility and optimism and the ever-present temptation of evil.

NOW Magazine | David Jager | 11-17-2008 | Fiction

Tags: fiction, Clyde Edgerton, The Bible Salesman

Irvine Welsh's Wimpy 'Crime'new

Welsh, known best for his druggy humor, gleefully scatological bent and the gruff pub vernacular of his characters, plays it amazingly straight and close to the vest in his most recent novel, Crime. So close and earnest, in fact, that you can hardly believe you're reading Welsh.

NOW Magazine | David Jager | 09-29-2008 | Fiction

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'The Drunkard's Walk' Admirably Intros Statistics and Probabilitynew

It helps that as a science writer, Leonard Mlodinow has a PhD in physics and did a stint writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

NOW Magazine | David Jager | 07-21-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Nonfiction Reviews, Leonard Mlodinow, probability, statistics, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

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Mark Twain Minus the N-Wordnew

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Bourdain Spills the Beansnew

Anthony Bourdain talks about other celebrity chefs and his current projects.

NOW Magazine | Steven Davey | 09-16-2010 | Author Profiles & Interviews

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Lydia Kwa’s 'Pulse' is a courageous piece of fiction.new

It’s always pleasurable to read a novel set in Toronto, but the key to Pulse is Kwa’s spare yet evocative prose.

NOW Magazine | Susan G. Cole | 04-02-2010 | Fiction

Tags: Lydia Kwa, Pulse (Book), Books, Pulse

'The Amazing Absorbing Boy': Trinidad to T.O.new

When his mother dies, comic-book-obsessed Sammy leaves Trinidad to live with his strangely distant dad in Regent Park. Everything about his new city fascinates the teenager, and he dives into his experience with eyes and ears wide open.

NOW Magazine | Susan G. Cole | 02-05-2010 | Fiction

Tags: Rabindranath Maharaj, The Amazing Absorbing Boy

'Global Warring': The Geopolitics of Climate Changenew

The Earth is warming. Fact. Weather patterns are changing. Undeniable. We’re all in a heap of trouble. Uh-huh. And we’re all doing our best to deal with it. Nope. According to Montrealer Cleo Paskal, the world governments are snoozing while the world boils.

NOW Magazine | Patrick Lejtenyi | 01-29-2010 | Nonfiction

Tags: Cleo Paskal, Global Warring, environment, climate change, global warming, geopolitics

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