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Last week we asked you to vote for our next pick. With a slew of emails, comments, votes and tweets crying out for an engaging and fun novel to follow from “What It Is Like To Go To War”, the final choice was clear.

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As entertaining as these movies can be, what are the effects these stereotypes of men have on the young guys growing up watching them?

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Google has not killed the library and ebooks won’t do it either. The biggest threat to the public library in American culture is limited hours.

The Facebook fiasco has spooked a lot of tech investors, especially those holding shares of recently-launched social media companies with similarly unproven earnings streams.

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Frédéric Filloux: Facebook needs to grow – and fast – if it is going to recover from its bumpy IPO…

For once, the benefits of an I.P.O. went to the company instead of to Wall Street.

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So, no honeymoon, then.A week ago, Mark Zuckerberg was celebrating his first morning as a married man, and a $19.1bn married man at that.

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All Wall Street needed to do was deliver a fair price — an honest price — to the common, middle-class investor.

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Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will be published June 5.
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Carlos Fuentes, one of the most influential Latin American writers, died Tuesday at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 83.
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