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- No Matter
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- Philip Roth (1933-2018)
- Movie Review: The Bookshop (2017)
- Meeting Xi Jinping
- Movie Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
- The Only Reason to Fear Death
- Send Trump to Miss Gates' Class
- Lancelot Links
- Claim to Non-Fame
- Whose Emerald City is it Anyway?
- If He Catches You You're Through
- Quote for Donald Trump
- Doctor...oh
- How Casablanca's Villain is a Hero
- My Impossibly Snobbish Salon Piece
- 'I'm Looking at a Book'
- How Mitch McConnell Lost His Soul: a Tragedy (for the Country) in 24 Quotes
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- 'Astute Summary'
- When You Wish Upon a Star
- Leaving Your Brad Pitt-ness Unprotected
- In the Future, We Will Know Nothing as Well as We Know Every Action on a Baseball Diamond
- The Banality of Goodness: 'Beautiful Souls' by Eyal Press
- The Permanent Campaign
- Why I Stopped Reading Fiction
- To Every Year, a Baseball Book
- The Debate Over 'The Arab of the Future'
- Burnishing Cobb ... to a Fault?
- E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
- Excerpt from 'Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty'
- Book Review: 'Benchwarmer' by Josh Wilker
- Judd Apatow's Five Favorite Books About Hollywood
- Is Every Line in 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' the Title of a Baseball Book?
- You, Robot
- Jim Palmer ... Minnesota Twin?
- Tinker Tailor, Elliott Philby
- David Cone, the '98 Yankees, and the Rewards of Self-Delusion
- Lancelot Links
- The Most Absurd Money Game Ever: 1980s Edition
- Quote of the Day
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- Secrets to Their Success: Tactical Self-Delusion
- Help Me Copy Curmudgeon, You Are My Only Hope
- Quote of the Day
- It's Not Too Late to Give the Gift of Bryson
- Be Like Obama: Give Books for Christmas
- Is This Plagiarism?
- Suggested Titles for Derek Jeter's New Book Imprint
- When Roth Was Good
- By the Book: Erik Lundegaard
- Quote of the Day
- The First Sentence of Every Short Story in 'American Short Stories, 4th Ed.'
- Book Review: '11/22/63' by Stephen King
- What’s Wrong with Jonathan Franzen’s ‘What’s Wrong with the Modern World’?
- The Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Heard
- Raise High the Bookshelves, Carpenters: More Salinger Books on the Way
- Five Books I Bought at Powell’s This Weekend
- 'I Would Rather Have You Beat the Yankees'
- A Walk in Seattle
- Book Review: I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson
- Quote of the Day
- From the Archives: A Review of Muammar Qaddafi's “Escape to Hell and other stories”
- Read These Books
- It was 20 Years Ago Today...
- From the Archives: My 1996 Interview with Jeff Bezos - Part II
- From the Archives: My 1996 Interview with Jeff Bezos - Part I
- From the Archives: The Movie Game
- Quote of the Day
- From the Archives: Amazon.com Ushers in New Era (1996)
- Scene at a Barnes & Noble II
- Scene at a Barnes & Noble
- Happy St. Jordi's Day!
- Three Stories with J.D. Salinger - Part II
- Welcome to the Loser's Club
- Quote of the Day: “City of God”
- The Baseball Essays of Stephen Jay Gould
- The Ten-Cent Plague and the ebb and flow of culture