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Some books don’t need trailers. (All right, maybe all books don’t need trailers, but they seem to be here to stay, so let’s move on.) Case in point: Aleksander Hemon’s The Lazarus Project, a finalist for both National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. What’s it about? Well, just watch the trailer! [...]

When I wrote my editor’s note for the most recent issue of REaD ALERT, spelling out my lack of enthusiasm for e-readers, I forgot to mention something: I am reading War and Peace via e-mail. A grievous omission? Perhaps. But the break from more mundane business has become so integrated into my morning routine that, truly, it slipped my [...]