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The Last Word

Advice for aggrieved writers: zip it

There is a place in readers’ memories, if not on the musty shelf of literature, for an author’s published rebuttal... More

House of Games

A spirited defense of the “digital dollhouse”

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter | By Tom Bissell | Pantheon | 240 pages, $22.95 Tom Bissell may be... More

Out of Africa

The raw and redemptive odyssey of a Burundian refugee

Strength in What Remains | By Tracy Kidder | Random House | 304 pages, $26 “The world is full of... More

Numbers Game

The long, unsavory, and amusing history of the American lottery

The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution | By Matthew Sweeney | Bloomsbury... More

Wising Up

An “investigative humorist” learns from his elders

How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on this Earth) By Henry Alford... More

Old TNR vs. New TNR

In one tweet

Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC

And it drives young journalists crazy

Oh, #Florida!

Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain

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