Review: ‘Black Earth’: A New Take on How the Holocaust Happened
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A compelling history that also speaks to the present and the future
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Q&A: Revelation, Jonah, Song of Songs, and More: Great Writers Reflect on the Bible
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Talking with editor Andrew Blauner about his literary anthology about the Good Book
Read MoreGood News: Cancel the Obituaries -- Print Book Sales for 2015 are . . . Up
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It's actually the second consecutive year of increased print sales
Read More5 Hot Books: A History of Stand-Up Comedy, the Novel Behind the New Leo DiCaprio Movie, and More
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And a Cultural History of Men and their Beards and Moustaches
Read MoreRead This: The Beautiful, Glamorous, Brutal, Legendary Life of Frank Sinatra
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Kaplan reminds us how much drama and mayhem -- and singing and acting -- Sinatra packed into just the second half of his life
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5 Hot Books: Simon Winchester on the Pacific Ocean, Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, and a Fun History of Jewelry
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And Molly Crabapple's Powerful, Richly Illustrated Memoir
Read MoreQ&A: Sam Freedman on The New York Times Reporter Who Changed AIDS Journalism Before Dying of AIDS
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The Times covered AIDS as a medical or political story. Jeff Schmalz made it a human story.
Read MoreQ&A: A Public Radio Journalist On Writing a Book with a Dying Man
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I really wasn’t convinced that talking to a dying man for a breakfast hour radio show would be something listeners would want to hear.
Read More5 Hot Books: A Big, Juicy Sinatra Biography and the Real-Life Tragedy Behind Moby Dick
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Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be
Read MoreReview: Who's a Good Dog Book? Beloved Dog is a (Very) Good Dog Book
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If ever an inanimate object radiated pure love, Beloved Dog is that item.
Read MoreReview: A Feminist Icon Takes Us On a Sometimes Too-Fast-Moving Adventure
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From family car trips, to founding Ms. Magazine, to India
Read MoreReview: A Smart, Insider's Look at the Republican Presidential Clown Car
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Trump, Carson, Cruz, and the rest -- leading the GOP in circles through the wilderness
Read More5 Hot Books: Indicting the NFL for Football Players' Concussions, and the Breast-Feeding Lobby for Guilt-Tripping Women
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Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be
Read MoreReview: Blogging Death, and Searching for Meaning in a Painful Decline
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A Minnesota Professor Who Shared His Struggle with ALS with the World
Read MoreEssay: Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt," The Lesbian Novel That's Now a Major Motion Picture
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The Book's History Reflects Attitudes Toward Lesbians from the 1950s to Today
Read More5 Hot Books: Paris's Best Street, How to Beat Cancer, and a Transgender Novel
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Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be
Read MoreDonald Trump’s 10 Rules for Book Writing -- Based on His New Book, Crippled America
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Rule #1: Praise Yourself Profusely
Read MoreReview: Sarah Vowell is Great -- But a Little Goes a Long Way
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"I’m all for the six or seven minute Vowell, which seems to be the right length for a yawp."
Read More5 Hot Books: Steven King, "Gray's Anatomy" Creator Shonda Rhimes, and Ted Koppel on Looming Disaster
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Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be
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