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Book News:

• More used books being sold online, says the New York Times . Book Reviews:
• Diarmaid MacCulloch's history of the Reformation is among "the most magisterial and stylishly written historical works to be published in a decade," says Benjamin Schwarz in the Atlantic Monthly.
• A botched attempt at a "theography," or map of the idea of God, says the London Guardian.
• James Wood on the latest volume of The Oxford English Literary History, in the London Review of Books.
• Collection of James Wood essays explores humor in fiction, says the Guardian.
• The Master: Henry James , from the Christian Science Monitor.
• Beethoven's last years, from the Times Literary Supplement.
• Mozart's letters, from the Guardian.
• Jane Jacobs looks at the future of cities, from the Toronto Globe and Mail.
• New biography of Napoleon, from the New Republic.
• Sports in Ancient Greece, from the Weekly Standard.
• William Langewiesche on anarchy on the world's oceans, from the New York Times .
• The history of Venn diagrams, from the Boston Globe.
• Why we have biological clocks, from the Times Literary Supplement.
• Why many are smarter than few, from the Christian Science Monitor.
• The 1912 election as a defining political moment, from the New York Times .
• bin Laden in Soviet Afghanistan, from the New York Review of Books.
• Roger Scruton's memoir of moving to the British countryside is "sparklingly written, affectionate without being cloying," says the Economist.
• Books for Mother's Day, books for Father's Day, from the New York Times .
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Nathan Bierma is editorial assistant atBooks & Culture. He writes the weekly "On Language" column for the Chicago Tribune.

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