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Sure, the “DFW footnote tic can get tiresome,” but the armor-clad man in the shark’s belly might “merit a little amplification and backgrounding.”

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Design maestro Michael Bierut decodes the hidden meaning of a recent NYTBR cover designed by his partner.

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Barthes, Foucault, & Derrida unwittingly helped retailers by predicting the future of capitalism. (See also thoughts on the political manipulability of postmodernism.)

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Anti-Semitic paranoia in the book world: 1968 (scroll down), and 2006.

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Craving year-end book lists? Check out some underrated writers, The Millions, Newley, the NBCC, and of course all the picks from the big guns. Soon I’ll talk up my own favorites.

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