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Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is the author of Delta Blues, The History of Jazz and, most recently, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool. You can follow Ted Gioia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tedgioia.
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T.C. Boyle's novel The Women looks at architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the context of three turbulent love affairs.
Hannah Arendt famously called attention to the “banality of evil,” but Jonathan Littell reveals an even scarier “bureaucratization of evil.”
Marisha Pessl's stunning debut novel starts out as a coming-of-age story but morphs into a dark whodunit with political overtones.
The rules for the board game Monopoly need to be updated in light of the dramatic changes in the economy.
Of all the dystopian novels of the post-WWII years, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 may be the most relevant to our current situation.
The most accurate prediction in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man was its visionary anticipation of head-to-toe tattoos.
In Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods,' the pagan deities decide that they deserve a little more respect in the New World.
You may find yourself aroused by J.G. Ballard's Crash. If so, you should keep off the roads until you get better.
Bel Canto describes a standoff between terrorists and government authorities, yet is closer to Romeo and Juliet than Die Hard.
The Red Planet, in Ray Bradbury’s 'The Martian Chronicles' is very much like Ohio... but with better weather.
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