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November 16, 2009 Judging A Book By Its Odor: A “Sniff Test” for Preserving Old Books
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November 16, 2009 Recipes for Desire: Adam Gopnik on Our Hunger for Cookbooks
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November 15, 2009 Blue Notes: Is Jazz Dying? (And if it is, What’s Killing It?)
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November 14, 2009 Sweet Home Hazelhurst, Mississippi: Robert Johnson’s Birthplace Verified
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November 11, 2009 Supreme Court Sluggers: “Green Bag” Law Review Issuing Trading Cards of Supreme Court Justices
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November 7, 2009 Forty-Four Years in the Making: The World’s First Historical Thesaurus
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November 7, 2009 A Jew By Any Other Name? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question
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November 6, 2009 R.I.P. – Art D’Lugoff (1924-2009)
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November 3, 2009 R.I.P. – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
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November 3, 2009 Das Book Cover Art: BLICKFANG & The Eye-Catching Cover Art of Weimar Germany
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October 28, 2009 Lonelier Planet?: BBC Plans to Sell Off “Lonely Planet” Guide Series
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October 27, 2009 The Jerry Smolin Collection of Historic Baseball Programs Headed To Auction in April
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October 23, 2009 R.I.P. – Milton Supman, aka “Soupy Sales” (1926-2009)
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October 22, 2009 Not So “Beloved”?: Is Toni Morrison’s Magnum Opus “The Most Overrated Novel Ever”?
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October 21, 2009 Burning Passion: Matchcover Collectors & The Return of a New Old Restaurant Freebie
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October 21, 2009 Mixed Bits: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
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October 21, 2009 The Perils of Pastrami: David Sax’s “Save the Deli”
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October 20, 2009 Mindful Fiction: Marco Roth on “The Rise of the Neuronovel”
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October 19, 2009 You Can Go Home Again: Philip Roth Attends H.S. Reunion Tour of Hometown Newark
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October 16, 2009 Greenhouse Effect: Berlin Brothel Boosts Business with Sex Discount for Cyclists
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