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Postwar Dreams in a Changing Korea
Deeply visual but problematic novel explores themes of cultural obligation. An assistant English professor at Chicago’s Columbia College and author of the one-act play turned novella turned short film...
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Lee Cataluna’s "Sofa"
Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa. Lee Cataluna. Bamboo Ridge. 213 pages; $18. Reviewed by Christine Thomas for The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Lee Cataluna is known for her voice, first heard live via...
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An Englishman’s view of America
Two decades of smart observation of the country’s highways and byways. Driving Home: An American Journey. Jonathan Raban. Pantheon. 496 pages. $30. Reviewed by Christine Thomas Jonathan Raban may have...
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Book Review: A Guide to Religion…for Atheists
RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS: A Non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion. Alain de Botton. Pantheon. 320 pages. $26.95 Reviewed by Christine Thomas Breezily confident essayist Alain de Botton announced...
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Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World
I really enjoyed a recent debut novel I reviewed for the Miami Herald, by an author I’m very glad now to know of. Despite disappointment at the character similarities with a real-life American figure....
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Oh what a tangled web
These seven stories snatched me by the collar and wouldn’t let go. Fib. Speak an untruth. Submit a falsehood. Tell a whopper. Or, in the case of German writer Bernhard Schlink, bestselling author of...
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Death, Love and Taxidermy
What’s the catch? Perhaps that is the question Susan Lindley, the damaged but easily likeable protagonist of , should have asked when she inherited her distant uncle’s massive Pasadena estate. In her...
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Book Review: What do women really want?
A woman walks down a grocery store aisle, and a man stops in his tracks and stares. She — and you — might never think of this fleeting encounter in the same way after reading Betsy Prioleau’s Swoon:...
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Book Review: Pushed to the edge by a new baby
What the characters of Thea Goodman’s debut novel, The Sunshine When She’s Gone, desire most is not money or sex or even the iPhone5, but sleep: “Sleep — for both of them — had become a precious...
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Book Review: The Good & Bad of Airline Travel
Forget lingering romantic visions of aviation — today’s airlines run a mean, profit-seeking business and passengers are at their mercy. At least that’s what seems apparent in Mark Gerchick’s...
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Book Review: Love – All
In Callie Wright’s promising debut novel, the Cole and Obermeyer families have suffered a loss: presumed matriarch Joanie Cole has died in her sleep next to her husband Bob. This death has brought them...
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Review: A Case of Eavesdropping
Everyone does it: Listening in, overhearing on purpose — whatever you call it, eavesdropping is a common transgression. But for Miles Adler-Hart, a self-professed snoop and the juvenile protagonist of...
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