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March 01, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Acclaimed New Novel, American Eugenics, and More

March 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Acclaimed New Novel, American Eugenics, and More

And Annabelle Gurwitch’s Wry Look at Downward Mobility and Other Woes

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March 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Asian-American Literature, Eugenics, Downward Mobility
February 22, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Women War Correspondents, the Cost of Racism, and More

February 22, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Women War Correspondents, the Cost of Racism, and More

And a Spectacular New Biography of Tom Stoppard

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February 22, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Women Foreign Correspondents, Economics of Racism
February 16, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Henry Louis Gates on the Black Church, Bill Gates on Climate Disaster, and More

February 16, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Henry Louis Gates on the Black Church, Bill Gates on Climate Disaster, and More

And the All-Women Kurdish Militia that Took on ISIS in their Small Town and Won

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February 16, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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The African-American Church, Climate Change
February 08, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: What's it Like to Be a Police Officer?, a Black Man Wrongly Accused, and More

February 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: What's it Like to Be a Police Officer?, a Black Man Wrongly Accused, and More

And Why We Should All Be More Alarmed About Cyberterrorism

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February 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Police, NAACP, Cybersecurity
February 01, 2021

5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More

February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More

And Uncovering the Secret History of Four Doomed Ancient Cities

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February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Mike Nichols, Mass Incarceration, Radcliffe Bunting Institute
January 25, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: The Death Penalty, a Confederate Soldier and a Freed Slave Team Up, and More

January 25, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Death Penalty, a Confederate Soldier and a Freed Slave Team Up, and More

And the Socially Constructed Stigma Around Mental Illness

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January 25, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
The Death Penalty, American Slavery, Mental Illness
January 19, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Hockey Parents, Lincoln and the End of American Slavery, and More

January 19, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Hockey Parents, Lincoln and the End of American Slavery, and More

And an Explorer Who Bravely Battled Frozen Seas, Frigid Temperatures, and Polar Bear Attacks

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January 19, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Hockey, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery
January 11, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: How the Senate Fails to Protect Democracy, Saving Martin Luther King, Jr. and More

January 11, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: How the Senate Fails to Protect Democracy, Saving Martin Luther King, Jr. and More

And What We Can Learn from the Greats of Russian Literature

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January 11, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
U.S. Senate, Martin Luther King
November 24, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: The Obsession with White Racial Purity, Escaped Slaves, and More

November 24, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Obsession with White Racial Purity, Escaped Slaves, and More

And a Biography of Henry Adams, ‘The Last American Aristocrat’

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November 24, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Racial Purity, Escaped Slaves
November 16, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: Barack Obama, an Ebola Book in the Age of COVID, and More

November 16, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Barack Obama, an Ebola Book in the Age of COVID, and More

And a Charming Novel of a Shtetl that Miraculously Escaped the Holocaust

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November 16, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Barack Obama, Ebola, Shtetls
November 13, 2020

Q & A: Lee Conell Talks About Her New Novel, Set in a Manhattan Co-Op Building

November 13, 2020/ Adam Cohen
Q & A: Lee Conell Talks About Her New Novel, Set in a Manhattan Co-Op Building

‘The Party Upstairs’ is Told from the Perspective of the Super’s Daughter

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November 13, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Manhattan Co-Ops, Building Supers, New York City Fiction
November 09, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: How to Reunite America, Solving an Old Murder at Harvard, and More

November 09, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: How to Reunite America, Solving an Old Murder at Harvard, and More

And a Survey of Strongmen, From Mussolini to Trump

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November 09, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Strongmen, Harvard
November 02, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: The Best Presidential Writing, a Biography of Edward Kennedy, and More

November 02, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Best Presidential Writing, a Biography of Edward Kennedy, and More

And a Sublime Collection of Stories by Shirley Hazzard

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November 02, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Presidential Writing, Edward Kennedy
October 26, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: A New Yorker Writer's Biden Biography, Dolly Parton, and More

October 26, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A New Yorker Writer's Biden Biography, Dolly Parton, and More

And a Riveting Tale of Native Americans Standing Up to White Encroachment

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October 26, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Joe Biden, Dolly Parton
October 19, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: The Life of Malcolm X, an Audiobook About Anthony Fauci, and More

October 19, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Life of Malcolm X, an Audiobook About Anthony Fauci, and More

And Breaking through the Myths Around the Life of Sylvia Plath

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October 19, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Malcolm X, Anthony Fauci, Sylvia Plath
October 13, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: Eleanor Roosevelt, Social Warrior; John Steinbeck, and More

October 13, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Eleanor Roosevelt, Social Warrior; John Steinbeck, and More

And Exploring an Infamous Murder in the Coal Miners’ Union

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October 13, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Eleanor Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, United Mine Workers
October 05, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: Books about Trump, the Scourge of White-Collar Crime, and More

October 05, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Books about Trump, the Scourge of White-Collar Crime, and More

And Pete Buttigieg on Why America Needs to Rebuild Trust in Government

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October 05, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
White Collar Crime, Trump Books, Pete Buttigieg
September 28, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: A New Jimmy Carter Biography, Mr. Inside Washington, and More

September 28, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A New Jimmy Carter Biography, Mr. Inside Washington, and More

And an Insightful Look at How Abraham Lincoln Was Shaped by his Times

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September 28, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Jimmy Carter, James Baker, Abraham Lincoln
September 21, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: America's Ambivalence About Immigrants, Russia-U.S. Relations, and More

September 21, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: America's Ambivalence About Immigrants, Russia-U.S. Relations, and More

And How Black Women Fought for Voting Rights and Legal Equality

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September 21, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Muslim-Americans, Black Women, Russia-American Relations
September 14, 2020

5 HOT BOOKS: Bob Woodward on Trump, a Pakistani-American Tale, and More

September 14, 2020/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Bob Woodward on Trump,  a Pakistani-American Tale, and More

And Maria Hinojosa’s Memoir of Living in a ‘Torn America’

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September 14, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Bob Woodward, Pakistani-Americans, Memoirs
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