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Lead Photo Excerpting Oscar: Passages from the former Vegas mayor’s new memoir

Goodman on Tony Spilotro, government crooks and more.

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Lead Photo Profs and politics: A sociologist researches the left and right along the academic aisle

Chuck Twardy | Wed, May 1, 2013 (5:35 p.m.)

Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? is on shelves now.

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Lead Photo Book review: ‘Happy’

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Apr 17, 2013 (4 p.m.)

How to put this—this graphic novel is just too cartoonish

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Lead Photo Book review: Jonah Berger’s ‘Contagious: Why Things Catch On’

Rick Lax | Wed, Apr 17, 2013 (3:54 p.m.)

One thing's for sure: This book won't catch on

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Lead Photo An unpublished play by Vladimir Nabokov finally sees the light of day

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Mar 13, 2013 (4:19 p.m.)

It's practically Shakespearean in its poetry, too

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Lead Photo Book review: Christopher Hitchens’ ‘Mortality’ and Eben Alexander’s ‘Proof of Heaven’

Rick Lax | Wed, Mar 13, 2013 (4:12 p.m.)

Two books with greatly contrasting viewpoints. Which one is the better read?

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Lead Photo Book review: ‘Susceptible’

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Feb 27, 2013 (4:21 p.m.)

A beautiful book about an ugly experience

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Lead Photo Faith meets friendship in Carlene Bauer’s debut novel

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Feb 20, 2013 (3:22 p.m.)

Frances and Bernard's protagonists write while exploring faith and romance.

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Lead Photo ‘Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow’ is raw and affecting

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (5:59 p.m.)

The book is really about a journey that doesn't go as planned.

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Lead Photo Tell-all tale ‘Heads in Beds’ doesn’t tell enough

Rick Lax | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (5:47 p.m.)

Hospitality vet? Check. Juicy stories? Not so much.

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Lead Photo When a good writer goes bad: A look at Mark Helprin’s latest

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (5:40 p.m.)

Who talks like this?

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Lead Photo Craig Yoe uses comics to looks into cartoonists

J. Calob Mozzocco | Wed, Jan 16, 2013 (5:16 p.m.)

It’s not that comics creators are vain so much as they suffer from their field’s own insidious form of writer’s block.

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Lead Photo Local author Daria Snadowsky on sex and the state of writing in Las Vegas

Rick Lax | Wed, Jan 16, 2013 (3:21 p.m.)

Snadowsky lives in Las Vegas, practices law and writes young-adult novels for Random House

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Lead Photo Best of 2012: Books

Chuck Twardy | Thu, Dec 27, 2012 (midnight)

Scrutinizing Jefferson bio is the top pick in print this year.

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Lead Photo Weekly eaters analyze the latest edition of ‘Eating Las Vegas’

Jim Begley, Brock Radke | Sat, Dec 8, 2012 (9:25 a.m.)

Like the critics who wrote it, there are some things about this Top 50 restaurant list that annoy us.

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Cocktail of the Week May 15, 2013
by Sabrina Chapman

The Golden Pillar: An architectural cocktail built for XS

This Sunday, XS nightclub celebrates the grand reopening of its after-dark pool party, Night Swim. Along with the bash comes a new offering of signature cocktails served by the pitcher, ...
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