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Journalism

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Pulphead: Essays
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Staff Pick
I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more)

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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
by The Onion
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The folks at the Onion are up to their usual shenanigans, this time bringing us an informative and wildly inaccurate atlas that fans will love.... (read more)

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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine with DVD-ROMs
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The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story
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