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October 1, 2007

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Featured Pick

fiction

The Insufferable Gaucho

Roberto Bolaño

Argentine lawyer becomes a gaucho

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books

Desert Storm

James Wood

letter from moscow

The Tsar’s Opponent

David Remnick