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April 17, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Murders in Indian Country, Blacks Imprisoning Blacks, and More

April 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Murders in Indian Country, Blacks Imprisoning Blacks, and More

And a New 'Great Gatsby,' Set in Small-Town North Carolina

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April 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Native Americans, Crime, Ambition
April 10, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Jim Jones's Death Cult, a Thriller About a Cold Case, and More

April 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Jim Jones's Death Cult, a Thriller About a Cold Case, and More

And Elisabeth Rosenthal's Much-Needed Primer on How to Fix Health Care

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April 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Jim Jones, Cults, Health Care, Marriage
April 03, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Riveting Mississippi Thriller, American Evangelicals, and More

April 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Riveting Mississippi Thriller, American Evangelicals, and More

And a Sympathetic Look at the Much-Maligned Prince Charles

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April 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Evangelicals, Mississippi Fiction
March 27, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Do Bad Brains Create Murderers?, Dictionary Stories, and More

March 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Do Bad Brains Create Murderers?, Dictionary Stories, and More

And How Income Inequality Threatens American Democracy

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March 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Brain Science, United Arab Emirates, Death of the Middle Class
March 13, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Complicated Architect, an Advice Columnist's Memoir and More

March 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Complicated Architect, an Advice Columnist's Memoir and More

And a former New York Times China Hand's Advice on Dealing with China

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March 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Architecture, Turkish-American Literature, Memoir
March 06, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A New Way to Look at Lincoln, Saving the Great Lakes and More

March 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A New Way to Look at Lincoln, Saving the Great Lakes and More

And a Liberian-Born New York Times Journalist Looks at Her Home Country

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March 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Abraham Lincoln, Environmentalism, Liberia
February 27, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Famous Writer and a Murderer, a Mentally Ill Poet, and More

February 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Famous Writer and a Murderer, a Mentally Ill Poet, and More

And the Scourge of For-Profit Higher Education

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February 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Norman Mailer, For-Profit Colleges, Robert Lowell
February 21, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Vaccine Scientists, a History of Rorschach Tests, and More

February 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Vaccine Scientists, a History of Rorschach Tests, and More

And a Thriller About a Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

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February 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Medicine, Science, Psychiatry, Chinese-American Fiction
February 13, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Matt Taibbi on Trump's Rise, the Fall of an American Town, and More

February 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Matt Taibbi on Trump's Rise, the Fall of an American Town, and More

And George Saunders' Entrancing Abraham Lincoln Book

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February 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Deindustrialization
February 06, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Daphne Merkin's Lively Memoir of Depression, Refugee Fiction, and More

February 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Daphne Merkin's Lively Memoir of Depression, Refugee Fiction, and More

And a Compelling Biography-Memoir about the Poet Elizabeth Bishop

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February 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Depression, Refugees, Vietnam, Poetry
January 23, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Radical Catholic Dorothy Day, Poet-of-Love Rumi, and More

January 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Radical Catholic Dorothy Day, Poet-of-Love Rumi, and More

And Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain Squaring Off Over American Imperialism

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January 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Dorothy Day, Rumi, Spanish-American War, Eyes on the Prize
January 17, 2017

5 Hot Books: Obama's Triumphant Presidency, Difficult Women, and More

January 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Obama's Triumphant Presidency, Difficult Women, and More

And a Daring Escape from a Brutal Chinese Labor Camp

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January 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Barack Obama, Roxanne Gay, China, Refugees
January 09, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: The Truth About Sex on Campus, a Mother Tries LSD, and More

January 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
 5 HOT BOOKS: The Truth About Sex on Campus, a Mother Tries LSD, and More

And How Darwin's 'Origin of Species' Got Big in the United States

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January 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Mental Illness, Darwin, Mississippi
January 03, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: World War I Pacifists, a Muslim Father Speaks Out, and More

January 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: World War I Pacifists, a Muslim Father Speaks Out, and More

And a Minnesota Girl Comes of Age, with a Backdrop of Sexual Scandal

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January 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
World War I, Pacifism, Minnesota, Islam, Egypt, Australian Literature
December 19, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Dark Christmas Stories, the Case Against Sugar, and More

December 19, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Dark Christmas Stories, the Case Against Sugar, and More

And a Chronicle of a Theater's Production of Shakespeare

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December 19, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Philadelphia, Christmas Literature, Shakespeare
December 12, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Tony Bennett on Great Artists, an Iconic Cartoonist, and More

December 12, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Tony Bennett on Great Artists, an Iconic Cartoonist, and More

And a New Biography of Elvis Presley, 40 Years after His Untimely Death

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December 12, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Elvis Presley, Cartoons, Popular Music, Feminism
December 05, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Interracial Love, a Literary Feud, Black Pepper and Vanilla, and More

December 05, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Interracial Love, a Literary Feud, Black Pepper and Vanilla, and More

And an American Catholic's Meditation on Pope Francis

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December 05, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Pope Francis, Women Scientists, Vladamir Nabokov
November 28, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show,' Rethinking Pearl Harbor, and More

November 28, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show,' Rethinking Pearl Harbor, and More

And a New History of AIDS that Recounts the War on an Epidemic

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November 28, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Pearl Harbor, The Daily Show, Japan, Country Music
November 21, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Bellevue Hospital, Bernie Sanders on the Way Forward, and More

November 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Bellevue Hospital, Bernie Sanders on the Way Forward, and More

And an American Muslim Girl, Now Woman, Tells Her Story

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November 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Bellevue Hospital, Bernie Sanders, Islam, The Caribbean, Jewish Literature
November 14, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Video of the JFK Assassination, New Zadie Smith, and More

November 14, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Video of the JFK Assassination,  New Zadie Smith, and More

And a Law Professor's Critical Look at the Rise of Online Advertising

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November 14, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
JFK Assassination, Zadie Smith
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