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January 8, 2007

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Featured Pick

fiction

Bear Meat

Primo Levi

Mountaineering stories(Translated, from the Italian, by Alessandra Bastagli.)

More picks from this issue

books

Nights at the Opera

Joan Acocella

comment

Gothamitis

Adam Gopnik