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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.
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Book Review: A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Charts the troubled relations of African, European and Native American members of a 17th-century New World household.
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The New Canon: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
In The Secret History, Donna Tartt charts the path by which a clique of college students become cold-blooded killers.
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The New Canon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The line between comic book heroics and real life exploits is often blurred in Michael Chabon's fanciful novel
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The New Canon: Blindness by José Saramago
José Saramago explores the chaos that ensues when an epidemic of blindness spreads rapidly through society.
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Book Review: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
In this sprawling posthumous novel, Roberto Bolaño solidifies his reputation as one of the leading—and most unsettling—novelists of modern times.
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Book Review: Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
The best thing to come out of North Dakota since Angie Dickinson.
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Book Review: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
In Paul Auster's novel Man in the Dark, a fictional character is charged with the unusual assignment of assassinating his own author.
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The New Canon: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a man and his son struggle for survival in the aftermath of a devastating cataclysm.
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The New Canon: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
In "The Feast of the Goat," Mario Vargas Llosa delivers a gripping account of a political cult of personality run amok.
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The New Canon: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Breaks almost every rule of fiction, from the typographical to the metaphysical.
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