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Historians Misbehaving Wonderfully -
December 15, 2005
UCI prof Jon Wiener examines his own kind
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Tempered Rage against the Machine -
December 1, 2005
George Saunders’ Phil is a wickedly funny parable
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Lame Fulminations -
November 17, 2005
Vonneguts latest is lightweight, gaseous stuff
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Grief Works -
November 10, 2005
Joan Didions Magical memoir on death
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Gratitude for Being -
October 27, 2005
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Lets Go Crazy Broadway-Style -
October 13, 2005
Evita is totally extreme and in-my-face. But youd like it
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Smart But Narrow-Minded -
October 6, 2005
Dumb Show has little to say
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The Risk Taker -
October 6, 2005
Aimee Bender: A willful creature
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The Mirror Crackd -
September 22, 2005
Lunar Park fails to reflect a believable Bret Easton Ellis story
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To Motherhood -
September 1, 2005
Still-demanding Caucasian Chalk Circle is a brave choice for SCR
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Waxing Roth -
August 25, 2005
The Library of America takes a shine to the author of Portnoys Complaint
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Give em Enough Rope -
August 18, 2005
Laramie explains itself
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The Secret Lives of Couples -
August 11, 2005
Dinner With Friends probes beneath marriages surface
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Doing It to Death -
August 11, 2005
Tom Petty and Jackson Browne: Burned out or rusted?
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The Little Pages That Could -
August 4, 2005
Revived Orange Coast Review is a shot in the arm to the local lit scene
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A Drawn-out, Unbelievable Hours -
July 28, 2005
Michael Cunninghams Specimen Days is uneven, at times far-fetched
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On the Way Down -
July 21, 2005
Hornbys latest novel finds him straining
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Delirious -
July 21, 2005
Like a Marx Brothers movie, this Hamlet relieves the burdens of the saddest heart
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Free Willy -
July 7, 2005
Long Beach Shakespeare in the Park
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The Plays the Thing -
June 30, 2005
Rude Guerrilla is no match for Stoppard
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Miller Time -
June 2, 2005
A View From the Bridge
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WEB EXCLUSIVE!Every Mothers Son -
May 26, 2005
Sex, salvation and sacrifice on Springsteens Devils & Dust
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Him with His Books -
May 19, 2005
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Avert Your Eyes -
April 14, 2005
Greenbergs Naked Girl is one fugly Neil Simon photocopy
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He Learned It By Watching Pulp Fiction -
March 17, 2005
Noah Haidle is 26 and a genius of new theaterand his newest production already has the old folks stomping out of SCR
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The Religious and the Secular Could Be Friends -
March 10, 2005
If they read Marilynne Robinsons Gilead
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Strange, Terrible Sagas -
February 24, 2005
Remembering Hunter S. Thompson and Arthur Miller
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Get Sick, Get Well. Hang Around an Inkwell -
February 17, 2005
Dylans Volume 1 saves the best for Volume 2
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Making the Breast of a Bad Situation -
February 3, 2005
Phillips Roths ode to mammaries still titillates
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Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Ms. Sontag and Ms. Kael? -
January 27, 2005
How two women authors molded two male writers they never knew
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On a Clear Day -
January 13, 2005
From Christopher Shinns On the Mountain, Sophocles wavers
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Imagining Orange County -
January 6, 2005
Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers
imagine the real place you call home
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Beautifully Familiar -
January 6, 2005
36 Views is Authentic Yet Forged
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Inside Final Edition -
January 6, 2005
Wallace Shawns new Sept. 11 compendium illuminates, educates
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