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JOHN FREEMAN

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Denis Johnson’s war

Vietnam in Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson has given us so many maimed and suffering souls in the past 25 years, he could fill a trauma ward.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  November 06, 2007

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American dreamer

Ha Jin retraces his journey
It’s difficult to think of an American writer with a story more inspiring than Ha Jin’s.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  October 15, 2007

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Class acts

Richard Russo’s family tidings
The cast of Bridge of Sighs — Russo’s first novel since his 2001 Pulitzer winner, Empire Falls — may have benefitted from a refresher course with Emerson.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  September 26, 2007

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War, peace, and Robert Pinsky

The season's fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
Every few years, a fall publishing season emerges that should remind us that Boston could be the literary epicenter of America.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  September 12, 2007

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Heat waves

Summer reads to cool off with
“Summer joys are spoilt by use,” wrote John Keats, meaning the less you do between June and August, the better.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  June 28, 2007

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Babbling books

Chabon, Murakami, Bukowski, and more
April comes like an idiot, Edna St. Millay wrote, babbling and strewing flowers.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  March 13, 2007

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In the zone

Buying Iraq’s broken dreams
Nearly four years into the Iraq War, the mistakes that tipped the US presence from occupation to quagmire stand out amid the rhetoric.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  January 04, 2007

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Not TV

Mailer, Lethem, Amis, Ashbery deliver good reads
Big names, new names, and a handful of poets provide worthwhile reading this winter to distract you from the Sopranos reruns on A&E.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  December 28, 2006

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Lions and lambs

Pynchon isn’t all you’ll be reading this fall  
The season is notable for the return to bookstores of canonical names like Atwood, Ginsberg, Kinnell, le Carré, Munro, Pynchon, and Vidal plus a fair share of younger lions like Eggers, Julavits, and Muldoon.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  September 13, 2006

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Mass marketing

George Saunders’s tragic-comic consumers
Everyone who reads him knows that George Saunders is one of the funniest writers at work today. What’s less remarked on is his capacity to wrench pathos from comedy.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  May 02, 2006

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To Hades and back

Louise Glück welcomes spring
“Always nights I feel the ocean, biting at my life,” Louis Glück wrote in Firstborn (1968), her first volume of poetry.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  March 30, 2006

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Good reads

From Roth to Hall, and non-fiction, too
According to the Greeks, spring is the season of rebirth, when Persephone was released from Hades and mom Demeter celebrated with flowers.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  March 09, 2006

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War and peace

Books that travel from the Mecca to Memphis
Since September 11, publishers have been rushing to supply Americans with non-fiction books about the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and anything relating to the upheavals in the Middle East.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  January 02, 2006
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