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Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell

By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, 277 pp, $37.95, hardcover.

Redress, by Roy Miki

Raincoast Books, 361 pp, $34.95, hardcover.

Claire's Head, by Catherine Bush

McClelland & Stewart, 323 pp, $32.99, hardcover.

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

HarperCollins, 247 pp, $34.95, hardcover.

Moving Targets, by Margaret Atwood

House of Anansi, 422 pp, $39.95, hardcover.

Politics, Observations and Arguments 1966-2004, by Hendrik Hertzberg

Penguin, 658 pp, $38.95, hardcover. In the small world of professional essayists, there are stylists: eloquent, elegant, and engaging; and there are thinkers: intelligent...

Acquainted With the Night, by Christopher Dewdney

HarperCollins Canada, 313 pp, $34.95, hardcover.