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February 05, 2018

5 Hot Books: A Border Patrol Agent Tells All, the C.I.A. at War, and More

February 05, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: A Border Patrol Agent Tells All, the C.I.A. at War, and More

And an Important Look Inside an Infamous Chicago Housing Project

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February 05, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexican Border, Chicago
January 29, 2018

5 Hot Books: Trump's First 100 Days, Jefferson's Daughters, and More

January 29, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Trump's First 100 Days, Jefferson's Daughters, and More

And A Thriller About Resisting Hitler On The Eve of World War II

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January 29, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
5 Hot Books
Trump, Thomas Jefferson, Race
January 22, 2018

5 Hot Books: Genocide in WW II Ukraine, When Will We Die? and More

January 22, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Genocide in WW II Ukraine, When Will We Die? and More

And Scientists Duel to Shape The World

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January 22, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Holocaust, Science, Crime
January 16, 2018

5 HOT BOOKS: The Rise of Marijuana in America, Rethinking Vietnam, and More

January 16, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Rise of Marijuana in America, Rethinking Vietnam, and More

And Niall Ferguson on the Subversive Power of Networks, from the 15th Century to Silicon Valley

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January 16, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Marijuana, Vietnam, Networks
January 08, 2018

5 HOT BOOKS: The Trump Takedown Everyone's Talking About, LSD, and More

January 08, 2018/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Trump Takedown Everyone's Talking About, LSD, and More

And 'Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions,' a Memoir of Life in the Working-Class Trenches

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January 08, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Donald Trump, Working Class, Timothy Leary
December 18, 2017

5 HOT BOOK: Mary Beard on Women and Power, Virtual Reality, and More

December 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOK: Mary Beard on Women and Power, Virtual Reality, and More

And a Woman Who Tracks Down the Lost Street Children of Uganda

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December 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Women, Virtual Reality, Uganda
December 11, 2017

5 HOT Books: An Aristocratic Anti-Nazi Commando, Royal Marriages and More

December 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT Books: An Aristocratic Anti-Nazi Commando, Royal Marriages and More

And a Sharp and Insightful Collection of Musings from Ursula K. Le Guin

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December 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Royalty, Jellyfish, World War II
December 04, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Planning for Nuclear War, Improv Comedy, and More

December 04, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Planning for Nuclear War, Improv Comedy, and More

And Actor-Playwright Sam Shepard's Novella, Finished in the Weeks Before His Death

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December 04, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Improvisational Comedy, Nuclear War, Sam Shepard
November 27, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Why Resilience Matters, an Inside Look at Chemical Weapons, and More

November 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Why Resilience Matters, an Inside Look at Chemical Weapons, and More

And a Rich, Wide-Ranging Collection of African-American Folklore

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November 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
African-American Literature, Chemical Weapons, Refugees
November 20, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Bestselling Photo Album of the Obamas, Cartoons, and More

November 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Bestselling Photo Album of the Obamas, Cartoons, and More

And a Look at the Real Laura Ingalls Wilder (an anti-New Deal anti-Semite)

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November 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Photography, Appalachia, Cartoons
November 13, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A History of Bunk, the Fall of Rome (with Modern Parallels) and More

November 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A History of Bunk, the Fall of Rome (with Modern Parallels) and More

And a Look at Today's Tech Titans, and Some of the Ways they are Hurting Society

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November 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Bunk, The Roman Empire, Women, The Russian Revolution, Technology
November 06, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: 1968 Election, Mad Men's Creator Writes a Novel, and More

November 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: 1968 Election, Mad Men's Creator Writes a Novel, and More

And Environmentalist Bill McKibben Tries His Hand at Fiction

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November 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
1968 Presidential Election, Wine
October 30, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Jann Wenner's Rolling Stone, Comfort Food, and More

October 30, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Jann Wenner's Rolling Stone, Comfort Food, and More

And 'The Water Will Come' Warns of Rising Seas and Sinking Cities

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October 30, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Rolling Stone, American Food
October 23, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A New John Grisham Thriller, Is Chinese Education Better?, and More

October 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A New John Grisham Thriller, Is Chinese Education Better?, and More

And Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s '100 Amazing Facts'

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October 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
John Grisham, Eric Garner, African-American History
October 16, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Tom Hanks's Short Stories, Walter Isaacson on da Vinci, and More

October 16, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Tom Hanks's Short Stories, Walter Isaacson on da Vinci, and More

And a Joni Mitchell Biography that Covers Her Complex Personality and Her Genius

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October 16, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Leonardo da Vinci, Tom Hanks, Russia
October 11, 2017

REVIEW: A Novel of Fathers, Sons, Small-Town Virtues -- and Baseball

October 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Novel of Fathers, Sons, Small-Town Virtues -- and Baseball

A Game that is, as the Saying Goes, "Dull Only to Dull Minds"

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October 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 4 Comments
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Baseball, Midwest, Small Towns
October 09, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Chernow on President Grant, Photographer Vivian Maier, and More

October 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Chernow on President Grant, Photographer Vivian Maier, and More

And a Provocative Look at Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook

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October 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Ulysses S. Grant, Vivian Maier, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook
September 18, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Concentration Camps, Sexism in Silicon Valley, and More

September 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Concentration Camps, Sexism in Silicon Valley, and More

And Americans Scraping by in an Increasingly Brutal Labor Market

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September 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Concentration Camps, Sexism
September 11, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Hillary's Campaign Memoir, Ken Burns on Vietnam, and More

September 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Hillary's Campaign Memoir, Ken Burns on Vietnam, and More

And a Vanity Fair Writer's Freewheeling Look at Sex in the 1990s

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September 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Hillary Clinton, Vietnam
September 05, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland, Danielle Allen's Doomed Cousin, and More

September 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland, Danielle Allen's Doomed Cousin, and More

And a Beautiful, Heartbreaking Novel Set on Mississippi's Gulf Coast

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September 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Mississippi Fiction, New York City, Sexual Assaults on Campus
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