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Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gone with the Wind Decoded; Flannery O’Connor’s Feathered Friends; and Amazonian Adve	Feb 24, 2009	603
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gone with the Wind Decoded; Flannery O’Connor’s Feathered Friends; Amazon Adventure	Feb 24, 2009	603
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Divine Sculptures; Heavenly Hogwash; and the Immortal Ian McEwan	Feb 16, 2009	676
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: David Ogilvy Admired; Memoirs Miniaturized; and Sexual Perversity Embraced	Feb 10, 2009	614
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Rabbit Remembered—McEwan, Amis and Others Wave Goodbye	Feb 2, 2009	640
Rabbit Requiescat	Jan 27, 2009	1538
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Obama's Inaugural Stealth; Guantánamo by Foot; the Sad Truth About Benjamin Button	Jan 26, 2009	690
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Peter Ackroyd Briefly Resurrects Edgar Allan Poe, Birthday Boy	Jan 19, 2009	668
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: The Triumphant Return of Jayne Anne Phillips	Jan 12, 2009	657
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Lincoln 24/7; Bush and The Great Gatsby; Smith’s Self-Absorption	Jan 5, 2009	717
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Short and Sharp from Melville House; Wallace Stevens’ Deep Freeze; and Obama’s Muse	Dec 22, 2008	576
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Jackie and La Joconde; Gore Vidal On Air; and a Long Lost Campus Novel	Dec 16, 2008	644
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Proust Junkies’ Delight; Luscious Love from the Louvre; and Brooklyn Bridge Adored	Dec 2, 2008	664
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Updike’s Raunchy Witches; Satanic Mailer; Paris Review Riches	Nov 24, 2008	664
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: America the Multiple; Pet Peeves from Across the Pond; Martian Pick-Up Lines	Nov 17, 2008	631
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Truman Capote’s Ageless Girl-About-Town	Nov 10, 2008	534
Foundling Fathers	Nov 4, 2008	1173
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Roy Blount’s Way With Words; Gottlieb’s Gargantuan Dance Anthology	Nov 3, 2008	599
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Jonathan Franzen Remembers David Foster Wallace; Mencken Disses Joe Sixpack	Oct 27, 2008	702
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Three New Memoirs, Three Branches on the Tree of Grief	Oct 20, 2008	565
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Veep Sweep; and the Reading Habits of Bulls and Bears	Oct 13, 2008	660
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Spiegelman’s Self-Portrait; Wisdom Begins at Sixty-Five	Oct 6, 2008	589
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Reading Mailer’s Mail; Suffering with Saul Bellow	Sep 29, 2008	563
Thinkin’ Lincoln for Fall! Also: Updike, Plimpton and a Buffett Bio	Sep 23, 2008	782
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: A Guided Tour of Your Noggin; Lou Reed Still Rules	Sep 22, 2008	589
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Michael Herr’s Heroic Honesty; Hemingway’s Unhappy Soldier	Sep 15, 2008	614
Even Flaubert’s Parrot Will Perish	Sep 5, 2008	867
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gilead Revisited; Nabokov Does YouTube; and the Honey Bee Blues	Sep 2, 2008	624
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Žižek’s Triple Somersault; Plastic Absolutism; and Co-op City Remembered	Aug 11, 2008	551
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Biography of a Nymphet; Dickinson’s Dalliance; and an Orwell-Waugh Amalgam	Aug 4, 2008	640
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Brilliant Mistakes; Sheep-Farming Sociopaths; and Egotistical Giants	Jul 28, 2008	650
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Hitchens Dunked; Patricians Behaving Badly; and Ehrenreich to the Rescue	Jul 21, 2008	504
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Barack the Scrivener; Opaque Pelosi; Hilary Mantel in History's Kitchen	Jul 14, 2008	558
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kerry as a Kid; Scratch ‘n’ Sniff; and High/Low Heaven	Jun 30, 2008	647
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Hypocrisy Weighed; the Kamasutra Commodified; and Pestilence Personalized	Jun 23, 2008	756
American Tragedy, 1972	Jun 18, 2008	1133
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Jim Webb Unvarnished; Move Over Mitt Romney, Here Comes Stephenie Meyer	Jun 16, 2008	644
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Rummy Disses the Pentagon; Unreliable Narrators; and Psychedelic Living	Jun 9, 2008	593
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gore Vidal vs. Midge Decter; Sodomy Laws; and Dan’s Hamptons	Jun 3, 2008	625
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kafka, Flaubert and Nabokov Come Out to Play	May 27, 2008	608
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Kingsley Amis Drinks; Bill Bryson Admonishes; and PEN Bestows Prizes	May 19, 2008	526
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Dylan Falls in Love, Goes Bananas; Delicious Pig Candy	May 12, 2008	584
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Abraham Obama; The Call of the Wild; A Gem from Richard Bausch; No Bun = No Burger	Apr 21, 2008	579
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Against the Semicolon; Vonnegut in Dresden; Women at War	Apr 7, 2008	534
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Osama's Siblings; Osama's Whereabouts; and the War on Osama	Mar 31, 2008	459
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: The Darker Side of Obama; The Largest Human Being of Our Time	Mar 24, 2008	618
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: The Crimes of Abu Ghraib; Pin the Tail on the Donkey; John Updike Goes Down	Mar 17, 2008	546
Heart of Boredom: Conrad Landlocked In Static, Stingy New Biography	Mar 11, 2008	1062
The Amis Bunch—Martin, Isobel, Kingsley—Share Shelf with Woodward, Walters, Proulx	Mar 4, 2008	774
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Female Fibs; Liebling at War; Mailer and Auchincloss, Separated at Birth	Mar 3, 2008	490
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Five Debut Novels	Feb 18, 2008	412
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: The Next Secretary of State; A Valentine From Eugenides; Love Lessons From Larkin	Feb 11, 2008	505
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Tom Wolfe's Steamy New York; The Nation's Gastric Obsessions	Feb 4, 2008	476
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Bill and Monica's 10th Anniversary, Militant M.L.K., Vermeer's Pearls	Jan 21, 2008	603
Rieff’s Grief: Sontag’s Son, On Her Death	Jan 8, 2008	979
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of October 15th, 2007	Oct 9, 2007	395
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of October 8th, 2007	Oct 2, 2007	371
Zuckerman Unsound	Oct 2, 2007	1008
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of October 1st, 2007	Sep 25, 2007	414
As Zuckerman Says Goodbye, Halberstam, Ivins and Schlesinger Live On	Sep 18, 2007	707
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of September 24th, 2007	Sep 18, 2007	464
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of September 17th, 2007	Sep 11, 2007	471
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 27th, 2007	Aug 21, 2007	519
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 20th, 2007	Aug 14, 2007	382
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 13th, 2007	Aug 7, 2007	440
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 6th, 2007	Jul 31, 2007	311
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 30th, 2007	Jul 24, 2007	548
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 23rd, 2007	Jul 17, 2007	408
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 16th, 2007	Jul 10, 2007	361
Carter Pierces the Heart of Whiteness	Jul 10, 2007	706
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 2nd, 2007	Jun 26, 2007	377
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of June 25th, 2007	Jun 19, 2007	363
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of June 18th, 2007	Jun 12, 2007	396
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of June 11th, 2007	Jun 5, 2007	283
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of June 4th, 2007	May 29, 2007	256
McEwan Shares a Wedding Night With Two Virgins	May 29, 2007	477
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of May 28th, 2007	May 22, 2007	227
Our Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Week of May 21st, 2007	May 15, 2007	278
Our Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Week of May 14th, 2007	May 8, 2007	217
DeLillo\'d5s 9/11 Resists Gravity	May 8, 2007	580
Our Tip Sheet on Current Reading	May 1, 2007	209
Jim Crace\'d5s Version Of American Apocalypse	May 1, 2007	545
Our Tip Sheet On Current Reading	Apr 24, 2007	338
Our Tip Sheet on Current Reading	Apr 23, 2007	355
A Love Letter to New York Friendship	Apr 15, 2007	558
Cheap Prada Knockoff, With Judith Regan as Devil	Feb 4, 2007	679
Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook	Dec 3, 2006	445
With His Pants Down: A Writer\'d5s Self-Portrait	Sep 10, 2006	1096
With His Pants Down: A Writer's Self-Portrait	Sep 10, 2006	1099
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on \'d4Real Life\'d5	Aug 20, 2006	1128
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on 'Real Life'	Aug 20, 2006	1129
Updike Does Islam, Colonizes New Jersey	Jun 4, 2006	1034
Roth Does a Dance With Death, Gloomy, Honest, Uncompromising	Apr 30, 2006	1128
Turning His Back on the Exotic, A Novelist Explores Home Turf	Apr 23, 2006	1109
Remember Sept. 11, 2001? Here\'d5s the Romantic Version	Jan 29, 2006	1158
Remember Sept. 11, 2001? Here's the Romantic Version	Jan 29, 2006	1158
Prize-Winning British Novel Catches Catalyst in Action	Jan 15, 2006	1232
E.L. Doctorow	Dec 18, 2005	1231
Infinite, Abject Apologies: Wallace Begins to Wear Thin	Dec 11, 2005	1155
A Biography of One\'d5s Own: Virginia Woolf for Readers	Dec 4, 2005	1199