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• Literature and letters as a constant of human history, from the San Francisco Chronicle.
• The Closing of the Western Mind blames the stifling of reason on religion, says the New York Times .
• A history of the soul, from the London Telegraph (Earlier: the weight of the soul).
• Philip Jenkins on Charles Murray's theory of human accomplishment, from First Things.
• Christopher Caldwell on choice as a blessing and a curse, from the New Yorker.
• The triumph of mumbo-jumbo and other 'modern delusions,' from The Economist.
• The twilight of Sartre's life and thought, from Policy Review.
• The future of Japan, from The Economist.
• Shedding light on the 'invisible' working poor, from the New York Times .
• The state of ruins, from the New Republic.
• All about Roget and his thesaurus, from the Times Literary Supplement.
• The Reformation's effect on art patronage in the Netherlands, and other mysteries of art and money, from the New Statesman.
• The rise and decline of Coca Cola, from the San Francisco Chronicle.
• The history of the Hoover Dam, from the Christian Science Monitor.
• The history of patents in America, from the London Guardian.
• The true story of Capt. James Riley, shipwrecked and enslaved in Africa, from the San Francisco Chronicle.
• Christopher Hitchens on John Buchan and his seminal spy thrillers, from the Atlantic Monthly.
• Colm Tóibín's novel on Henry James a 'triumph,' says the London Observer.
• Essay: Julia Keller on how technology blurs the distinction between writers and readers, from the Chicago Tribune (A book in a day? From The Economist).
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Nathan Bierma is editorial assistant at Books & Culture.

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