April 11, 2016

5 Hot Books: Hamilton, the Brilliant Musical – Now a Brilliant Book, Rethinking Thomas Jefferson, and More

April 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen

And an anthology by writers, mainly, on the books that changed their lives

April 08, 2016

VIDEO: Today is Lyricist Yip Harburg's Birthday -- Here He Is Singing "Over the Rainbow" and Explaining the Idealism Behind It

April 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen

He says he wanted to create a "better world, a rainbow world"

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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals

A real-life story of a miscarriage of justice, and the difficulty of righting it

Two New Books Explore the Lives of America’s Great Explorers

Fine Writing that is a Break from Our Current Chaos

A Man’s Meditation on Homeland and Exile

“It’s a long game,” McCracken says. “That’s all I ever want to impart to my students.”