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Heroes Once More
ROME 1960 The Olympics That Changed the World By David Maraniss
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Fall from Grace
THE EAVES OF HEAVEN A Life in Three Wars By Andrew X. Pham
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View From the Summit
A WRITER'S PEOPLE Ways of Looking and Feeling By V.S. Naipaul
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Odd Couples
In 2000, Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks welcomed a most unusual guest into their Santa Fe home: a baby buffalo.
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Poet's Choice
I once heard our current poet laureate, Charles Simic, tell a story about his mother in the war-ravaged Yugoslavia of his youth.
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Literary Calendar
6:30 P.M. Max Sherman , former dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his recent book, Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder (Sherman was a longtime friend of Jordan from their days in the Texas state senate), at...
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Letters
Alexandra Fuller's review (Book World, July 6, 2008) of Rick Bass's Why I Came West spent more time talking about the heroic work of Nigeria's Ken Saro-Wiwa than about Bass's book. Saro-Wiwa's legacy is clearly something the world should honor, and Fuller's review probably alerted people like me to...
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Verse of the Turtle
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets.
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