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  1. Crime

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    Many Sinners, Very Few Saints

    Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features a “bitter as hell” ex-con, a homicidal professor, a near-mad narrator, and a soldier of fortune turned beach bum.

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    What Do Novels About Evil Children Say About Us?

    Horror stories about children guilty of murderous misdeeds are perennially popular. Ruth Franklin considers what the genre tells parents about their own fears.

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    A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60

    “Candy,” the satirical sex novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg now available in a new anniversary edition, wages guerrilla war on prudery.

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    How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won

    In “The Fall of Wisconsin,” Dan Kaufman shows how the Tea Party’s philosophy has triumphed in a state long known for its progressive traditions.