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  • Ligaya Mishan edits The New Yorker’s book blog and writes restaurant and book reviews for the magazine. She is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. She was born on Sunset Boulevard and grew up in Honolulu; has been a shoe model, a tutor at the Supreme Soviet, and an advertising writer; and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the composer Ahrin Mishan, and their daughter, Calla.

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Book reviews: 2008

Laura Warholic, by Alexander Theroux (Fantagraphics).
The New Yorker, January 7, 2008

Beginner’s Greek, by James Collins (Little, Brown).
The New Yorker, January 21, 2008

The Voyage of the Short Serpent, by Bernard du Boucheron, translated from the French by Hester Velmans (Overlook Duckworth).
The New York Times Book Review, February 3, 2008

The Commoner, by John Burnham Schwartz (Nan A. Talese / Doubleday).
The New Yorker, February 25, 2008

Animal’s People, by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster).
The New York Times Book Review, March 9, 2008

Ravens in the Storm, by Carl Oglesby (Scribner).
The New Yorker, March 17, 2008

Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow (Harper).
The New Yorker, March 17, 2008

Dandy in the Underworld, by Sebastian Horsley (Harper Perennial).
The New Yorker, April 14, 2008

Light Years, by Susanna Moore (Grove).
The New Yorker, April 21, 2008

National Anthem, by Kevin Prufer (Four Way).
The New Yorker, April 28, 2008

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