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		<title>Artifice and Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The personas and poetics of five new books by American women are examined in with an eye toward concealment and of revelation: Matthea Harvey, Katy Lederer, Brenda Shaugnessey, Robyn Schiff, and Karen Volkman.]]></description>
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		<title>The Man of Steel Revealed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most famous fictional creation this side of Tarzan has undergone innumerable changes over the years, and author Tom DeHaven tries to chart them all in his new book on the Man of Steel.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/the-man-of-steel-revealed/</link>
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		<title>Café Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[... I don’t mind the missing violin; /
I am sweetly imbibing a foreign /
fortitude: nothing terrible /
will happen this hour or the previous... /]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/cafe-town/</link>
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		<title>Through the Keyhole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mikhail Chekhov's Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir has at last been published in English in its entirety, and its flaws and omissions make it almost as revealing as one of Anton's own stories.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/through-the-keyhole/</link>
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		<title>A Year with Short Novels: &#8220;There is a bridge&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The jewel-like perfection of Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is the subject of Ingrid Norton's scrutiny in this latest installment of "The Year of Short Novels"]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/a-year-with-short-novels-there-is-a-bridge/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Mystery: &#8220;A violin is always female&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is not a false note in Paganini’s Ghost, Paul Adam’s superbly calibrated mystery that unfolds around the intrigue generated by a priceless instrument and its keepers.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/a-violin-is-always-female/</link>
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		<title>Peer Review: DeLillo and the Three Ps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nation's book critics naturally congregated when Don DeLillo's slim new book appeared. In the latest Open Letters Peer Review, John Rodwan supplies a scorecard for the players.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/peer-review-delillo-and-the-three-ps/</link>
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		<title>Like Dust, and Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mythology, Alcestis is the model wife, willing to give up her own life for her husband's. In Katharine Beutner's lyrical retelling, the truth is more complex.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/like-dust-and-memories/</link>
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		<title>Soothing the Elites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louis Menand has offered a calm and lucid response to the usual jeremiads about higher education--but is its lecture targeted to an ever-shrinking audience?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/soothing-the-elites/</link>
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		<title>In Shafer&#8217;s Shadow</title>
		<description><![CDATA["My ideal poem would be able to be interpreted as both funny and sad and whatever else….” Shafer trailed off. “I think that’s a fairly accurate description of my work, and probably of myself too.”]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/in-shafers-shadow/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;You Talk Too Much&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike its predecessor, Mass Effect 2 makes being a jerk a rewarding experience--Phillip A. Lobo explores the paradoxes of the Enlightenment, and the complicated morality of being bad.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/you-talk-too-much/</link>
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		<title>The Lost Library: Donald Windham&#8217;s Two People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donald Windham may not have intended his 1965 novel Two People to be trailblazing, but its unsentimental frankness set it apart just the same.  Philip Gambone reads it again.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/donald-windhams-two-people/</link>
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		<title>His Homelands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ He was a soldier, a lover, an exile, and a wanderer - he was Ugo Foscolo,and thanks to a new translation, readers will learn he was one thing more: a powerful poet.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/his-homelands/</link>
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		<title>Twilight of the Giants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The elephants of South Africa and the right whales of the North Atlantic are enormous, complex - and confronted with a growing human population. Two books estimate their chances.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/twilight-of-the-giants/</link>
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		<title>It’s Not All Gossip and Fangs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest novels by Francisco X. Stork and Benjamin Alire Saenz remind us that there's much, much more to teen fiction than vampire fads.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/it%e2%80%99s-not-all-gossip-and-fangs/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justin Taylor's Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever raises the age-old question about 'hot' new collections: can they possibly live up to their own billing? Janet Potter turns in a verdict.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/facebook-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Sunday in the Park with Dramaturgical Heueristics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giambattista Tiepolo spent a lifetime fulfilling contracts and covering walls with glowing celebrations of light and life. In Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso delves into those bright works.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/sunday-in-the-park-with-dramaturgical-heueristics/</link>
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		<title>March 2010 Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA["snoverkill" by Jeffrey Eaton]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/march-2010-issue/</link>
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		<title>February 2010 issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Dominium" by Katie Caron]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/february-2010-issue/</link>
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		<title>Bad Books, Good Hooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They don't work as books, but they do work their way on us - insistently, insidiously. We throw them across the room, but we keep picking them up again.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/bad-books-good-hooks/</link>
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