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|  | Young guns A look at some of contemporary poetry's brightest new talent
 BY RUTH TOBIAS
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 Red all overSifting through the Sox drawer
 BY MIKE MILIARD
 Spiders, ants, and grasshoppers — oh myA round-up of this summer's interesting insect tales
 BY RICCO VILLANUEVA SIASOCO
 Anthony’s girl
 AN ORIGINAL STORY BY STEVE ALMOND
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 | Unforgiven Elinor Langer's portrait of a 'hate crime'
 BY SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS
 |  | Picture this Coffee-table books for a new generation
 BY RUTH TOBIAS
 |  | Read locally What's new on the shelves from local independent presses
 BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN
 |  | Queer eye for the right buy Books about gay and lesbian lives
 BY DAVID VALDES GREENWOOD
 |  | The read less traveled Feeding wanderlust with writing that goes beyond Frommer's and Fodor's
 BY GENEVIEVE RAJEWSKI
 |  | Fore! Peter Dexter's dangerous back nines
 BY JOHN FREEMAN
 |  | Too much! Martin Amis goes off his own deep end
 BY RICHARD C. WALLS
 |  | Dead poet’s society Peter Carey's game of literature and life
 BY CLEA SIMON
 |  | Pleasure principles Caroline Knapp's Appetites
 BY MICHAEL BRONSKI
 |  | Beyond belief J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello
 BY JOHN FREEMAN
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