Roger Ebert's 'Life Itself': A Real Life Reclaimed From Encroaching Sainthood
The biggest threat to Roger Ebert, the writer, is probably Roger Ebert, the saint.In the last five years, since cancer and its complications left him unable to speak, Ebert has become the very model of...
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Magic has never really gone out of style. As long as mere mortals have been telling stories, they've dreamed up tales of gods and demons, monsters and magicians. But for the last several hundred years,...
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Here's a warning: if you start reading Patricia Marx's new novel in public, you might just find yourself snorting out loud — and with some explaining to do.The book, Starting From Happy, is a...
View ArticlePoison In The Post: Revisiting 'American Anthrax'
In the anxious aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, former Defense Secretary William Cohen warned "the next terrorist attack could well involve a contagious agent carried to our soil or airspace in a briefcase...
View ArticleHow To Help Your Child's Brain Grow Up Strong
Babies may look helpless but as soon as they come into the world, they're able to do a number of important things. They can recognize faces and moving objects. They're attracted to language. And from...
View ArticleYour Mind Cannot Handle the Arrant Awesomeness Of This Comic Book Cover
... so we're showing you just this tiny detail from it first.Look at it for a while.Take it in.We'll reveal the cover in its full splendor after the jump, once your body's had some time to adjust. We...
View ArticleMichael Moore On His Penchant For 'Trouble'
Michael Moore didn't plan on becoming a filmmaker. As a teenager growing up in the Midwest, he considered documentaries to be a bit like broccoli: good for you, but boring.Instead, he spent his...
View ArticleNew In Paperback: Sept. 12 - 18, 2011
Fiction and nonfiction releases from Brad Meltzer, Masashi Kishimoto, Stacy Schiff, Stephen Breyer and Joseph Ellis. [Copyright 2011 National Public Radio]
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