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Adam Liptak

Forget Outer-Space Aliens-Check Out Washington, D.C.

Little Green Men , by Christopher Buckley. Random House, 300 pages, $24.95.

Christopher Buckley has called himself the Cyndi Lauper of American letters. He just wants to have fun.

He’s good at it, he has lots of it. Mr. Buckley produces high-end humor in vast quantities. He tosses off, with alarming ease, New Yorker Read More

The Discreet Charm of a Lefty Who’s Serious About Wages

The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life , by Thomas Geoghegan. Pantheon Books, 240 pages, $25.

A bunch of us were sitting around drinking and playing Celebrity after a dinner party. Celebrity is what they used to call a parlor game. You write down the names of a lot of famous Read More