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Salon.com June 27, 2001 Allen Barra |
Death to hagiographers! The new wave in sports biography, including the latest revisionist look at Muhammad Ali, is to trash the once-hallowed subject...  |
Salon.com June 26, 2001 Maria Russo |
"I Only Say This Because I Love You" by Deborah Tannen The author of "You Just Don't Understand" turns her eagle eye on the stinging, maddening, sneaky ways that family members communicate...  |
Salon.com June 21, 2001 David Galef |
Technical difficulties What if the damsel in distress had a cellphone or Romeo had a pager? Modern gizmos make plotting a nightmare for writers...  |
Salon.com June 20, 2001 Peter Kurth |
"The Last Days of Haute Cuisine" by Patric Kuh A witty, gossipy history of high cuisine shows how America's best restaurants turned into boomer feeding factories...  |
Salon.com June 19, 2001 Maria Russo |
"The Collected Stories of Richard Yates" The bard of disintegrating marriages and deluded artists is enjoying a posthumous boom with a masterly story collection...  |
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 |
Book reviews Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: An Essay on Financial Globalisation and Fragility by Alexandre Lamfalussy... From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays by Peter Bauer... Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom by Bob Woodward... etc.  |
Salon.com June 18, 2001 Gavin McNett |
Once upon a dimension A sequel to the classic "Flatland" brings to life the mind-bending world of cutting-edge mathematics and alternate universes...  |
Salon.com June 15, 2001 John W. Dean |
Character assassination A new biography of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg is a hatchet job worthy of the White House Plumbers...  |
Salon.com June 14, 2001 Carina Chocano |
An hour with the author of "A Year in Van Nuys" So what if Sandra Tsing Loh isn't growing her own basil in a rustic farmhouse in Provence? Success is just as sweet in a "swamp-cooled" bungalow outside L.A....  |
Salon.com June 13, 2001 Allen Barra |
"The Cold Six Thousand" by James Ellroy With his latest tale of epic conspiracy and evil, Ellroy takes crime fiction as far as it can go -- and maybe even farther...  |
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