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"If I Were the Devil"

Holly Munson | Posted 05.02.2012

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Holly Munson

Satire is an important form of political commentary. The problem is that when someone equates a particular policy position with The Destruction of America As We Know It, they disregard the fact that reasonable people can disagree.

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Many a City Is 'Title Town'

Dave Astor | Posted 09.06.2011

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Dave Astor

Do you read so much fiction that visiting a city almost always reminds you of certain novels?

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New Yorker Festival 2010 Lineup Announced: Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers

Posted 05.25.2011

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The weekend of October 1st is going to be very busy in the literary world, as heavy hitters from across all book genres are slated to appear at the 11...

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Broadway Looks at Racism in the Obama Era

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: E. Y. Harburg, Shrek, Broadway Plays and Musicals, South Pacific, Hamlet, Barack Obama Influence, Oscar Hammerstein, Finian's Rainbow, Memphis, Avenue Q, West Side Story, Jude Law, Race, After Miss Julie, August: Osage County, E.L. Doctorow, Burton Lane, Hair, Racism, In the Heights, Patrick Marber, Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Superior Donuts, Ragtime, New York News
David Finkle

Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.

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Liu Xiaobo Imprisonment: Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow And Other Writers Gather To Protest

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Major writers will gather in New York this morning to call for the release of Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo. On Christmas Day, Liu Xiaobo w...

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Stage Door: Ragtime, My Wonderful Day

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fern Siegel

Ragtime is a sweeping, ambitious revival that, with the election of Barack Obama, carries added resonance. The musical, an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel, is not to be missed.

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Doctorow's Bleak House

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Doctorow isn't really interested, as he's been so often before, in illuminating America's past. His subjects, of course, are the nutball Collyer brothers and their activities in and around their Fifth Avenue mansion.

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New York Books to Look for this Fall

Greg Mortimer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Mortimer

Books written in and about the City of New York, its food, its maps; from Jonathan Lethem, Times restaurant critic William Grimes, and more.

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An Audio Book Review: Forget Butch and Sundance, Etta's the Real Star Here

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kid Curry, The Sundance Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Trotsky, Etta Place, The Wild Bunch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Gerald Koplan, Annie Oakley, The Hole in the Wall Gang, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Dos Passos, Blackstone Audio, Butch Cassidy, Kirsten Potter, E.L. Doctorow, The Pinkerton Detective Agency, The Harvey Girls, Katherine Ross, Ann Hathaway, The Black Hand, A Novel, Robert Redford, Etta, Media News
Tom Alderman

In this imaginative and fictional biography, Etta Place can shoot a gun as well as Annie Oakley, ride a horse like Buffalo Bill and rob banks with the skill of an experienced outlaw.

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E.L. Doctorow Among Nominees For International Book Prize

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — "Ragtime" novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker I...

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