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	Issue of 2005-12-26 and 2006-01-02 Posted 2005-12-19




	Hendrik Hertzberg on the War on Christmas; tracking illegal guns.

Laura Miller	Far from Narnia Philip Pullman’s ethics for children.

Tatyana Tolstaya	Yorick A relic of a grandmother’s past.

Vladimir Nabokov	“The Word”
Roberto Bolaño	“Last Evenings on Earth”
Yoko Ogawa	“Pregnancy Diary”
Tahar Ben Jelloun	“Beauty Is a Fate Better Than Death”
Ismail Kadare	“The Albanian Writers’ Union as Mirrored by a Woman”


Jeffrey Frank	The strange career of Knut Hamsun.

Louis Menand	“The Economy of Prestige,” “The World Republic of Letters.”
	Briefly Noted

Paul Goldberger	Re-creating old Shanghai.

Alex Ross	Joseph Volpe’s season at the Met.

Anthony Lane	“Munich,” “Hidden,” “The New World.”

Wislawa Szymborska	“Perspective”
Yehuda Amichai	“In a Man’s Life”

Adrian Tomine	“Around the World”

	William Haefeli, Leo Cullum, P. C. Vey, Paul Noth, John Donohue, Charles Barsotti, Emily Richards, Drew Dernavich, Gahan Wilson, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Roz Chast, Barbara Smaller, George Booth, Mick Stevens, David Sipress, Matthew Diffee, C. Covert Darbyshire, Michael Shaw, Jonny Cohen, Carolita Johnson, Jason Patterson, P. S. Mueller

	Philippe Petit-Roulet

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