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February 07, 2024

REVIEW: Exploring the Connections Between the Holocaust, Music, and Memory

February 07, 2024/ Adam Cohen

A Story of Art, Unspeakable Horrors, and Loss

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February 07, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Holocaust, Music, World War II
February 14, 2019

Q&A: A Legendary Reporter On His Book on the 1960s, Filled with Heroes and Villains

February 14, 2019/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Legendary Reporter On His Book on the 1960s, Filled with Heroes and Villains

Surveying a Turbulent Decade from the Beatles to Andy Warhol to Robert Kennedy

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February 14, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
The 1960s, American History, Music
October 25, 2017

REVIEW: Roddy Doyle's New Novel Combines Two of His Interests: Music and Abuse

October 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Roddy Doyle's New Novel Combines Two of His Interests: Music and Abuse

The Protagonist Wrestles with What in His Sometimes-Difficult Past was Real

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October 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Irish Literature, Sexual Abuse, Music
August 28, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Sex, Race, and Music, a Marine's War Memoir, and More

August 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Sex, Race, and Music, a Marine's War Memoir, and More

And an M.I.T. Professor's Cautionary Words about Artificial Intelligence

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August 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Music, Marines, Artificial Intelligence
May 12, 2017

Q&A: Delving into the Life of the Inscrutable Jazz Legend Bix Beiderbecke

May 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Delving into the Life of the Inscrutable Jazz Legend Bix Beiderbecke

A Jazz Pioneer Who Was, Surprisingly, the Pride of Davenport, Iowa

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May 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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Jazz, Bix Beiderbecke, Iowa, Music
February 16, 2016

5 Hot Books: A N.Y. Times Critic's Guide to Current Music, a Memoir from the Columbine Killer's Mom & More

February 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: A N.Y. Times Critic's Guide to Current Music, a Memoir from the Columbine Killer's Mom & More

And an NBC journalist's memories of reporting in the Middle East

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February 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Music, Guns, Murder, Fiction, Middle East, Journalism
January 31, 2016

AUDIO: This Is the One Book Bill Gates Says He Would Bring With Him to a Desert Island

January 31, 2016/ Adam Cohen
AUDIO: This Is the One Book Bill Gates Says He Would Bring With Him to a Desert Island

And no, it is not a book about computer software

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January 31, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Bill Gates, Favorite Books, Steven Pinker, War, Music
December 17, 2015

Read This: The Beautiful, Glamorous, Brutal, Legendary Life of Frank Sinatra

December 17, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Read This: The Beautiful, Glamorous, Brutal, Legendary Life of Frank Sinatra

Kaplan reminds us how much drama and mayhem -- and singing and acting -- Sinatra packed into just the second half of his life

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December 17, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Frank Sinatra, James Kaplan, Biography, Music, Mafia
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