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December 01, 2015

Review: A Smart, Insider's Look at the Republican Presidential Clown Car

December 01, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: A Smart, Insider's Look at the Republican Presidential Clown Car

Trump, Carson, Cruz, and the rest -- leading the GOP in circles through the wilderness

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December 01, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Republicans, Presidential Campaign, Cruz, Trump, Rubio
November 30, 2015

5 Hot Books: Indicting the NFL for Football Players' Concussions, and the Breast-Feeding Lobby for Guilt-Tripping Women

November 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Indicting the NFL for Football Players' Concussions, and the Breast-Feeding Lobby for Guilt-Tripping Women

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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November 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
November 27, 2015

Review: Blogging Death, and Searching for Meaning in a Painful Decline

November 27, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Blogging Death, and Searching for Meaning in a Painful Decline

A Minnesota Professor Who Shared His Struggle with ALS with the World

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November 27, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Memoir, Medicine, Death and Dying, Illness, ALS
November 24, 2015

Essay: Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt," The Lesbian Novel That's Now a Major Motion Picture

November 24, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Essay: Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt," The Lesbian Novel That's Now a Major Motion Picture

The Book's History Reflects Attitudes Toward Lesbians from the 1950s to Today

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November 24, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Fiction, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature, Patricia Highsmith, Erin G. Carlston
November 23, 2015

5 Hot Books: Paris's Best Street, How to Beat Cancer, and a Transgender Novel

November 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Paris's Best Street, How to Beat Cancer, and a Transgender Novel

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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November 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
The Hot 5
Fiction, Biography, Medicine, Cancer, Paris
November 19, 2015

Donald Trump’s 10 Rules for Book Writing -- Based on His New Book, Crippled America

November 19, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Donald Trump’s 10 Rules for Book Writing -- Based on His New Book, Crippled America

Rule #1: Praise Yourself Profusely

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November 19, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
November 18, 2015

Review: Sarah Vowell is Great -- But a Little Goes a Long Way

November 18, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Sarah Vowell is Great -- But a Little Goes a Long Way

"I’m all for the six or seven minute Vowell, which seems to be the right length for a yawp."

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November 18, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
History, American History, Ann Fabian, Sarah Vowell
November 16, 2015

5 Hot Books: Steven King, "Gray's Anatomy" Creator Shonda Rhimes, and Ted Koppel on Looming Disaster

November 16, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Steven King, "Gray's Anatomy" Creator Shonda Rhimes, and Ted Koppel on Looming Disaster

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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November 16, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
November 11, 2015

Q&A: Hundreds of Jews Locked in a Barn and Burned to Death (by Poles, Not Nazis): Poland, 1941

November 11, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Hundreds of Jews Locked in a Barn and Burned to Death (by Poles, Not Nazis): Poland, 1941

A Talk with a Polish Journalist Who Dug Into an Ugly Part of Her Nation's Past

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November 11, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Q & A
History, Poland, Jews, World War II
November 09, 2015

5 Hot Books--John Irving's New Novel and Letters from Actress Mary Louise Parker

November 09, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books--John Irving's New Novel and Letters from Actress Mary Louise Parker

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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November 09, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
November 06, 2015

Ask The National : 10 Tips for Authors Making Book Appearances

November 06, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Ask The National : 10 Tips for Authors Making Book Appearances

Look Like You Care . . .Don't Race to the Finish . . . and Remember to Breathe

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November 06, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
November 04, 2015

Review: Mary Gaitskill’s Heartwarming Novel of Awkward Racial Tension

November 04, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Mary Gaitskill’s Heartwarming Novel of Awkward Racial Tension

A tale of how white guilt and the need for love intermingle to create messy human relationships

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November 04, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Fiction, Novels
November 02, 2015

5 Hot Books: Sliding Toward Big Brother, and Novel About Brooklyn That's Now a Major Motion Picture

November 02, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Sliding Toward Big Brother, and Novel About Brooklyn That's Now a Major Motion Picture

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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November 02, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
October 29, 2015

Q&A: Author David Maraniss on Detroit, Motown Music, and How to Report

October 29, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Author David Maraniss on Detroit, Motown Music, and How to Report

The "Four Legs of a Table" Method of Researching a Book

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October 29, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
October 28, 2015

Review: Exploring the U.S. and Israel's Complicated Relationship

October 28, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Exploring the U.S. and Israel's Complicated Relationship

Helpful Advice from a Longtime Middle East Advisor

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October 28, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Israel, History, Middle East, Foreign Affairs
October 26, 2015

5 Hot Books: A Big History of the Salem Witch Trials, the Holocaust in Poland

October 26, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: A Big History of the Salem Witch Trials, the Holocaust in Poland

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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October 26, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
October 23, 2015

Review: Detroit Was a Golden City Once – and It Can Be Again

October 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: Detroit Was a Golden City Once – and It Can Be Again

By Lavea Brachman

The seeds of renewal must be egalitarian

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October 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Cities, Non-Fiction, History
October 21, 2015

Q&A: Nicholas Lemann on Columbia University's New Leap Into Publishing

October 21, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Nicholas Lemann on Columbia University's New Leap Into Publishing

A New Imprint for Books Tackling Big Global Issues

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October 21, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
October 20, 2015

News: New Survey Confirms -- Books Are Not Dead Yet

October 20, 2015/ Adam Cohen
News: New Survey Confirms -- Books Are Not Dead Yet

And the best news is: millennials are the biggest readers

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October 20, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
October 19, 2015

5 Hot Books: JFK's Mentally Disabled Sister, Ted Hughes, and More

October 19, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: JFK's Mentally Disabled Sister, Ted Hughes, and More

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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October 19, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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A Man’s Meditation on Homeland and Exile

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REVIEW: Elizabeth McCracken Tells Us How to Write Fiction
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“It’s a long game,” McCracken says. “That’s all I ever want to impart to my students.”

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