While They Slept
An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family
Kathryn Harrison
Random House: 292 pp., $25
IN THE early morning hours of April 27, 1984, in Jackson County, Ore., 18-year-old Billy Gilley killed his mother, father and the younger of his two sisters with a baseball bat.
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Bonk
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
W.W. Norton: 288 pp., $24.95
WHAT Mary Roach won’t do for a book!
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Entertainment |
By Tara Ison |
November 22, 2007
For the last week, I’ve been intimately involved with Jack Nicholson.
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Battles for conquest from ancient Greece to Sputnik-era outer
space; landscapes spanning the Australian desert and the Himalayan
heights; the anxious inner lives of a man debating a vasectomy or the
head executioner of revolutionary France – such is the stunning
breadth of the 11 stories in Jim Shepard’s new collection, “Like
You’d Understand, Anyway.”
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“MY dream is to act Beatrice is the sheltered only child of well-respected
psychologist parents Sarah and Jeremy Fisher-Hart; this is a loving
family floating along in its bubble of Cambridge, Mass., academia and
upper-middle-class self-aggrandizement.
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EXPECTING a reader to ride shotgun on the journey of a character’s
existential crisis is a lot for a writer to ask.
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S “The Great Dictator,” Mel Brooks’ “Springtime for
Hitler,” Monty Python’s “Mr.
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HERE’S a story for you: “A group of ten young people over the course of ten days” comes
together “in a luxurious retreat from the horrors” of their chaotic society.
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IT’S the fuel that drives the engine of romantic love, the steam
behind millions of moist narratives and sweaty quests.
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