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Then came 1996, 13th pick overall, a 17 yr old from Philly emerged. Kobe started his career from the bench but in 1997 he became an all-star, while MJ captured his 5th ring. Everybody was focused on MJ, on how to beat the triangle, how to beat the Bulls. Phil Jackson However, the 11-time NBA [...]

When Glenn Beck devoted an episode of his show to “The Road to Serfdom,” he made the anti-socialist book a best-seller. Shanghai hopes for an all-e-reader campus within five years. What to read during the…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Great images of books from around the world and the Web. A poster created toward the end of the First World War by Charles Buckles Falls. According to the Boston Public library, which has an…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Don’t miss Brendan Boyle’s review of “The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination,” in Bookforum. It ponders why writers put off writing with reading or with writing something they’re not supposed to be writing….Read the whole article at The Newyorker

A weekly look at the world of little magazines. The Paris Review Prints the Memoir of a Criminal Tween When pondering exile, we tend to think of Siberia as a destination, but back in the…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Great images of books from around the world and the Web. From reader Ryan Green: “My cat, Mr. Paws, is a big fan of the blog, as well as of books (although, in an effort…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Allegra Goodman, the author of this week’s story, “La Vita Nuova,” exchanged e-mails with Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine, about art, writing, and being a person on whom “nothing is lost.” This…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Elisabeth Badinter’s polemic against motherhood is stirring up controversy in France. Will the iPad help books go viral? “Twilight” fans rejoice: Stephenie Meyer’s new novella, “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner,” hits stores on…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

As the Olympics were coming to an end, we here at the Covers Contest found that our craving for nightly doses of valiant competition still needed to be fed. We couldn’t imagine a life without…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Lately—and who knows why only lately—several of my friends, some male, some female, all of them currently in crawl position in the dating trenches, and all of them writers, have suffered cruelly from what I’ll…Read the whole article at The Newyorker