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September 20, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Why Are Americans So Angry?, Heroines, and More

September 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Why Are Americans So Angry?, Heroines, and More

And Finding the Real-Life Women at the Center of Roe v. Wade

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September 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Heroines, Roe v. Wade, America
September 08, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Three Black Girls in Chicago, New Lemony Snicket, and More

September 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Three Black Girls in Chicago, New Lemony Snicket, and More

And a Look at the Supreme Court’s Woeful History on Race

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September 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Black Women, Lemony Snicket
August 23, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Anti-Chinese Discrimination, Frederick Douglass v. Andrew Johnson, and More

August 23, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Anti-Chinese Discrimination, Frederick Douglass v. Andrew Johnson, and More

And the Genius of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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August 23, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Chinese Immigration, Reconstruction
August 16, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: A BIllie Jean King Biography, What We Can Learn from Trees, and More

August 16, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A BIllie Jean King Biography, What We Can Learn from Trees, and More

And Telling the Stories of Refugees Attending a Highly Diverse Chicago High School

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August 16, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Billie Jean King, Trees, Refugees
August 09, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Underpaid and Undervalued Work, Women Resisting Hitler, and More

August 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Underpaid and Undervalued Work, Women Resisting Hitler, and More

And a Look at Patriotism in Post-9/11 America

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August 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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American Labor, Anti-Nazi Resistance, Patriotism
July 27, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Dr. Leana Wen's Public Health Memoir, Raising Children's IQs, and More

July 27, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Dr. Leana Wen's Public Health Memoir, Raising Children's IQs, and More

And Cal Flyn Takes a Global Tour of Disaster Hotspots

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July 27, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Dr. Leana Wen, Children's IQs, Disaster Sites
July 20, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: The Disastrous Trump Presidency, the Science of Quarantine, and More

July 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Disastrous Trump Presidency, the Science of Quarantine, and More

And the Story of a Victorian Era Serial Killer

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July 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Donald Trump, Quarantine
July 06, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Forgetting the Alamo; for Trumpists, the Cruelty is the Point, and More

July 06, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Forgetting the Alamo; for Trumpists, the Cruelty is the Point, and More

And a Female Scientist’s Unexpected Friendship with a Fox

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July 06, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
The Alamo, Cruelty
June 28, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Edgar Allan Poe's Science, the Mysterious Death of an 18-Year-Old Girl, and More

June 28, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Edgar Allan Poe's Science, the Mysterious Death of an 18-Year-Old Girl, and More

And a Novel from the 1930s that was Prescient in Its Understanding of Where Nazism Was Heading

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June 28, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Edgar Allen Poe, Unsolved Murders, Doctors
June 21, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: 1960s Political Activism, When the New Deal Paid Broke Writers, and More

June 21, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: 1960s Political Activism, When the New Deal Paid Broke Writers, and More

And the Tragic Story of an Artistic European Family

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June 21, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Federal Writers Project, 1960s Political Activism
June 08, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: A New Way to Think about Thinking, a Big New COVID Book, and More

June 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A New Way to Think about Thinking, a Big New COVID Book, and More

And a Deep Dive from Bill Bratton on Modern Policing

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June 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
The Brain, Policing, Ethel Rosenberg
May 04, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Michael Lewis on COVID-19, Annette Gordon-Reed on Juneteenth, and More

May 04, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Michael Lewis on COVID-19, Annette Gordon-Reed on Juneteenth, and More

And Discovering the Wisdom of Trees

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May 04, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
COVID-19, Juneteenth, Trees
April 26, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: A Biography of Nancy Reagan, a Jewish-Puerto Rican Playwright, and More

April 26, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Biography of Nancy Reagan, a Jewish-Puerto Rican Playwright, and More

And Exploring the Legacy of a Harvard Homer Professor Who Died Mysteriously

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April 26, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Nancy Reagan, Puerto Rican-American Literature
April 19, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Art and Thought in the Cold War, a Brother's Suicide, and More

April 19, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Art and Thought in the Cold War, a Brother's Suicide, and More

And Essays from a Mixed-Race Writer Who Thinks of Herself as “a Perpetual Foreigner”

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April 19, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Cold War, Suicide, Asian-Americans
April 12, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: The Erosion of Medical Consent, the Problem with Fad Psychology, and More

April 12, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Erosion of Medical Consent, the Problem with Fad Psychology, and More

And Ricki Lee Jones Looks Back on Her Life as a Troubadour

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April 12, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Medical Consent, Psychology
March 29, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Women's Rights Pioneers, Children Traumatized by Guns, and More

March 29, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Women's Rights Pioneers, Children Traumatized by Guns, and More

And Eleanor Roosevelt’s Little-Known Years as a Greenwich Village Bohemian

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March 29, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Women's Rights, Guns, Eleanor Roosevelt
March 23, 2021

5 Hot Books: The Asian American Experience, a Nazi's Granddaughter Looks Back, and More

March 23, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: The Asian American Experience, a Nazi's Granddaughter Looks Back, and More

And a History of America’s First Civil Rights Movement

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March 23, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Asian Americans, Francis Bacon, Civil Rights Movement
March 15, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: The Magic of New York City, Figuring Out Lady Bird Johnson, and More

March 15, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Magic of New York City, Figuring Out Lady Bird Johnson, and More

And a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of ‘Midnight Cowboy’

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March 15, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Lady Bird Johnson, New York City
March 09, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Walter Isaacson on Gene Editing and the Future of Humanity, Illegal Guns, and More

March 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Walter Isaacson on Gene Editing and the Future of Humanity, Illegal Guns, and More

And a Novel about an African Village in the Grip of a Major American Oil Company

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March 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Gene Editing, Guns, Africa
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
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