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Leaping at The Chance For More Readers?

This is what it's come to, folks: A distinguished editor and a widely respected writer are talking about getting naked and jumping off cliffs.

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Imagining the Holidays

"IF YOU COULD SPEND A HOLIDAY WEEK AS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER , WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND WHY?" Some well-known authors reveal their surprising choices.

Read more : 02.12.2007 12:00:00

Heroes Are People, Too

HEROES From Alexander the Great And Julius Caesar To Churchill and De Gaulle | By Paul Johnson

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An Affair Fantastique

SYMPHONY By Jude Morgan St. Martin's. 374 pp. $24.95

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Military Cadences

SOLDIER'S HEART Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point | By Elizabeth D. Samet

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Best Nonfiction of 2007

Agent Zigzag , by Ben Macintyre (Harmony). The amazing story of a professional criminal who became a double agent during World War II. -- Patrick Anderson

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Best Fiction of 2007

ABC , by David Plante (Pantheon). A daring and oddly exhilarating exploration of grief. -- Elizabeth Hand

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The 10 Best of the Year

Our editors and critics choose the top books of 2007

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Liteary Calendar

7 P.M. Poets featured in the new anthology Echoes: Voices from Prince George's County Poets , including J. Joy Matthews Alford, Steve M. Buter, Spencer L. Duffy and Susan Levy , read from their work at the Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 S. Park Ave., Chevy Chase, Md. This event, part of the...

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Michael Dirda

THE BOOK OF PSALMS A Translation with Commentary By Robert Alter

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