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On the Border’s Edge
Drug war reporter Charles Bowden is telling El Paso-Juarez’s secrets, one murder at a time
Roger Gathman
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Beyond Himself
Jonathan Safran Foer’s unconscious grasp of the Jewish literary tradition
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An Artificial Wilderness
UT professor Philip Bobbitt on his “Shield of Achilles’ and the rules of war diplomacy since 1500
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Summer Reading
Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002
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Christopher Middleton: Translating a German Genius
Translator and former UT professor Christopher Middleton has shed some literary light on 20th-century German writer Robert Walser, a favorite of few and forgotten by most.
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Book Review
Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Everything Is Illuminated’ has appeared under an unusually beneficent conjunction of stars for a debut novelist. The first chapter was excerpted in ‘The New Yorker’. The book was featured on the very cover of ‘The New York Times Sunday Book Review’. Reviewer Roger Gathman explains why all the fuss is being made.