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...which routinely reviews books written by former employees (and feels no great love for Baer, whose best seller, See No Evil, excoriated the agency), says the author has violated his secrecy oath by revealing such pieces of information as the alleged attempt by the Saudi Interior Minister to have a prominent dissident assassinated...
Back-to-school time may be weeks away, but the season's surprise on the best-seller lists is a how-to for academic success. Ron Clark, 31, author of The Essential 55 (Hyperion), is an earnest Atlanta-based grade-school teacher who has come up with 55 rules for "discovering the successful student in every child." What magical formula has the educator discovered? His core philosophy is that if you teach basic behavioral lessons first, they will lay the foundation for academic education later. Among his tips for kids: make eye contact when in conversation, meet your deadlines, learn...
...standby: there is no such thing as something for nothing. Indeed, these free gifts—marvelous tokens of affection which are hurled at visitors so carelessly—are not just handed out willy-nilly, but rather are part of an exchange between buyer and seller aimed at attracting business for exhibiting companies. In order to earn the privilege of a precious free gift, one must pay the tax of listening to a sales pitch or presentation on a new product, which most likely has nothing to do with the gift you are lusting after in the first place...
When Ann Coulter published Slander last year, she didn't just score a surprise No. 1 best seller; she also discovered an entire new audience hungry for her notoriously sharp-tongued, unabashedly right-wing rhetoric. Now she's back with Treason (Crown Forum; 355 pages), and as TIME's Lev Grossman discovered, she has in no way mellowed with...
Nobody does abjection like Michel Houellebecq. He's French, after all, so he has the exemplary squalor of Sartre, Celine and Genet to live up to. It was the state-of-the-art estrangement, plus the sex, that made his second novel, The Elementary Particles, a huge best seller in Europe and made Houellebecq (pronounced Well-beck) a heavily contested literary star. Last year he was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred after he called Islam "the most stupid religion." (Does it help to know that his mother left him in childhood for an Arab and converted...