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    In the late sixties, Gail Pool and her husband set off to live with the Baining, an isolated people in Papua New Guinea. He was a graduate student in anthropology; she was an aspiring writer. Many people warned them against this trip, pointing to the stresses of the rugged mountain terrain, their own isolation, and the mystery of the Baining, about whom little was known. But just two years out of ... Leer más

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  • Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America

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    For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise, hostility, banality, and bias.Faint Praise takes a hard and long-overdue look at the institution of ... Leer más

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  • Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds

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