When I was researching my nonfiction book "The Lost Art of Walking," I came across this wonderful comic passage in P.G. Wodehouse's "The... 
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When John F. Kennedy Jr. introduced George magazine in 1995, he was derided for his insistence on covering politics as lifestyle. The...
The Pulitzer-nominated author roams the world to share the rides that are changing people's lives.
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The poet and undertaker explores the threshold between life and death in his latest collection.
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A young scholar finds nourishment -- and madness -- in the academic circles devoted to studying Russia's literary masters.
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A mass murder in wartime Japan that is seen -- Rashomon-like -- from the perspective of its dying victims.
Fate intrudes into the life of Adam Kindred. Call it the innocent man in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A murder mystery -- set on Malta during World War II -- is both a sendup to classic thrillers and a thrilling tale all its own.
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