REVIEW: An Obama Administration Veteran Explains How Government Can Do Better
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It’s a Genre of Book We Need More of: Primers on How Government Actually Works
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REVIEW: Lorrie Moore's New Novel Centers on a Suspended Teacher in Meltdown
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Everything that Rises Must Converge in this Slim, Fulfilling Book
Read MoreREVIEW: A Virginia Slaveowner Freed His Slaves. The Rest of the Story is Complicated.
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It was an impossibly long road from not being enslaved to achieving full freedom
Read MoreREVIEW: How Lincoln Won at the 1860 GOP Convention--and How it Paved the Way for What Followed
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America’s Great Emancipator Could Also be a Wily Political Infighter
Read MoreREVIEW: David Grann's Epic Story of Shipwreck and Mutiny During the Quest for Empire
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A Tale from the Days When England and Spain Competed Bitterly for Dominance in the Americas
Read MoreREVIEW: A N.Y. Times Writer's Timely Question: What Has Happened to the Republican Party
/When Did the Organizing Principle of the G.O.P. Become “Delusion”?
Read MoreREVIEW: Elizabeth McCracken Remembers Her Singular, Privacy-Loving Mother
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Should You Write a Book About a Woman Who Sought to Avoid the World’s Harsh Gaze?
Read MoreREVIEW: Scott Turow's New Novel Features a Female Police Chief with Some Problems
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The Sketchy Accusations that She Exchanged Sex for Promotions are Only the Beginning
Read MoreREVIEW: 25 Years after 'Election,' Tracy Flick is Mellower -- but Still Intent on Winning
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As in the Novel Where We First Met Her, Tracy’s Lack of “Likability” Creates Problems
Read MoreREVIEW: Candice Millard Takes Us on a Pulse-Racing Search for the Source of the Nile River
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And Millard Tells the Story of Two Explorers, who Were Bitter Rivals
Read MoreREVIEW: A Collection of Savvy Stories that Take a Swipe at New Technology
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Including One, Being Adapted by Hulu, in which Russian Bots Woo Women on a Dating App — and Steal their Data
Read MoreREVIEW: The Life and Death of Darryl Hunt, Imprisoned for Years for a Crime He Didn't Commit
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After His Release, He Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound with $1.76 in Liquid Assets to His Name
Read MoreREVIEW: An Illuminating Look at Modern Ireland, the Good and the Toxic
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O’Toole convincingly traces the unfortunate traits to a toxic mixture of religion and politics
Read MoreREVIEW: Lorraine Hansberry is Known for One Play -- But What a Play
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The Author of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Did Not See the Artist’s Role as Making Day-to-Day Life Appear More Palatable
Read MoreREVIEW: Chuck Klosterman's 'The Nineties' is a Mind-Bending Look at a Pivotal Decade
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An Era that Brought Us the Internet, Grunge, and President Bill Clinton
Read MoreREVIEW: Ann Patchett's Radiant New Essay Collection Has a Fine-Tuned Moral Compass
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With a Killer Central Essay About Friendship, Cancer, and — of all People — Tom Hanks
Read MoreTO READ: Centering Women in Greek Myths (for a Change)
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This Insightful Work is a ‘Splendid Balancing Act’
Read MoreREVIEW: In Louise Erdrich's Latest, Covid and Police Shootings Shape the Narrative
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Part Novel of Social Concern and Part Mystery, it Shows the Author at Her Best
Read MoreREVIEW: Why Did the New Boeing 737 Max Have Two Crashes in Just 5 Months?
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Exploring the Catastrophic Consequences of Myriad Decisions
Read MoreREVIEW: How Muslims Shaped the Americas -- and How the Americas Shaped Muslims
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“No doubt, Islam has a place within me,” the irreverent author says. “But do I have a place within it?”
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