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Vignettes And Characters Shift In 'Chameleons'

5:00pm August 04, 2008

In The Book of Chameleons, a gecko narrator weaves fragmentary tales of invented pasts into a story of charming airiness. The prize-winning Portuguese novel is set in post-civil war Angola.

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Excerpt: 'The Lace Reader'

5:01pm July 31, 2008

Excerpt: 'The Lace Reader'

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Sex, Drugs And Sonnets: In 'Will,' All's Well

12:01am July 31, 2008

Even the bard wasn't as bawdy or silly as drug-addled scholar "Willie" Shakespeare Greenberg, the fumbling protagonist of Jess Winfield's lovingly naughty academic picaresque, My Name Is Will.

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Excerpt: 'Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean'

3:19pm July 03, 2008

Douglas Wolk takes graphic novels seriously and dissects today's comic-book landscape.

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Excerpt: 'The Great Comic Book Heroes'

3:12pm July 03, 2008

Jules Feiffer offers a critical history of comic books. He labels comics "junk" — only to vigorously defend our need for them.

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Surveying Sex, A To Z, In 'Dirty Words'

12:00am July 03, 2008

Like most things that happen in the bedroom, the collection of essays found in Dirty Words is fun, naughty and totally inappropriate for the eyes of children.

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Excerpt: 'Dirty Words'

12:00am July 03, 2008

Adultery, commitment, sex, obsession — this encyclopedia covers all of these subjects and more.

Philadelphia's Gum Tree Cut Down

7:00am June 23, 2008

For the first installment in a series on unlikely landmarks, the BPP talks to business owners on Philadelphia's South Street about what locals call the "gum tree." For years, it was a repository for chewed gum. But the neighborhood is sprucing up, and the tree has been cut down.

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Philadelphia's Gum Tree Cut Down

7:00am June 23, 2008

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