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Gene Santoro Oxford University Press ($30) by Jon Rodine Although Charles Mingus died in January of 1979, in twenty-one years he hasn't lost momentum. Groups

Hilary Spurling HarperCollins ($20) by Nathan Leslie Hilary Spurling's new biography, La Grande Thérèse, is partially a footnote to her fecund The Unknown Matisse, a work that cast

Dana Sachs Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill ($22.95) by Brian Foye Single, female, American, born in the 1960s and so too young for any first-hand

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James Atlas Random House ($35) by Eric J. Iannelli Saul Bellow has certainly reserved a place for himself in the literary Valhalla. His novels helped

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Herbert Marder Cornell University Press ($35) by Carolyn Kuebler In his "Prelude" to The Measure of Life, Herbert Marder tells a story about his "somewhat offbeat"

Kim Addonizio Boa Editions ($12.95) by Sean Thomas Dougherty Kim Addonizio's third collection continues the dialectic of urban despair—the dialogue between bar room and beauty,