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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:00 -0700
New technologies emerge all the time, but only a handful change everything that follows in their wake. And they're not always the first of their kind.
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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:01 -0700
Hynes has in the past made major contributions to the campus comedy genre; with this courageous breakout novel, he's now one of our major American novelists, period.
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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:11:50 -0700
Are iPads, smartphones and the mobile web rewiring the way we think? By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor Monday, July 26, 2010 Technologies such as printing — and in recent decades television and the pocket calculator — have all served time as villains only to become innocuous, commonplace parts of modern life. Why should helpful new technologies be any different?
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:18:41 -0700
Contemporary authors have a habit of lazily shoplifting plots and characters from 19th-century fiction -- especially the works of Jane Austen. But even though Allegra Goodman's latest novel, The Cookbook Collector , is a modern riff on Sense and Sensibility , her homage quickly comes to have a glorious life of its own.
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