AUDIO: This Is the One Book Bill Gates Says He Would Bring With Him to a Desert Island
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And no, it is not a book about computer software
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VIDEO: On the Anniversary of His Death, Here is Robert Frost Reading "The Road Not Taken"
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A classic poem about which critics have long disagreed
Read MoreREVIEW: How to Stop the Super-Rich From Dominating Presidential Politics
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Fixing the campaign finance system after Citizens United
Read More5 Hot Books: The Koch Brothers' Dangerous Influence, Investigating a Georgia Lynching, and More
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And an absurd novel about trying to assassinate Stalin
Read MoreVIDEO: On Virginia Woolf's Birthday, Here Is the Only Recording of Her Remarkable Speaking Voice
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Talking about the art of writing, and the words she likes to use
Read MoreREVIEW: Why Are the Republicans Acting So Crazy – and Will They Ever Be Sane Again?
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E.J. Dionne argues they might -- if they can just break the grip of the far-right wing
Read MoreQ&A: Columnist E.J. Dionne on the Future of the Increasingly Radicalized Republican Party
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And his new book, Why The Right Went Wrong
Read MoreBOOK AWARD NEWS: National Book Critics Circle Announces Prize Finalists
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Winners will be announced March 17 in New York City Ceremony
Read More5 Hot Books: New Joyce Carol Oates, the Armenian Genocide, and an EMT's Wild Rides
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And historian Ian Buruma's book about his grandparents, in love and war
Read MoreVideo: On Susan Sontag's Birthday, Here She is Confronting Norman Mailer Over His Use of the Phrase "Lady Writer"
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From a famous encounter at New York City's Town Hall
Read MoreReview: An Ultra High-Energy Novel About the 1999 Seattle Anti-WTO Protests
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It asks to be consumed in a single sitting, much like a film or a play
Read MoreNews: Top Children's Book Prize Winners: the Amazing True Story of Winnie-the-Pooh, and a Child's Discovery of Race and Class
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And this year: the first Latino author to win the Newbery
Read More5 Hot Books: A Cancer Doctor With Stage IV Cancer, Pope Francis on Mercy & More
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And fighting over fancy co-op hallways on Manhattan's Upper East Side
Read MoreVideo: Today is Simone de Beauvoir's Birthday: Here She Is Talking About Why She Became a Feminist
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And About What She Meant By "One is Not Born, But Rather Becomes, a Woman."
Review: A Story of Obsession: These People Really Love Their Rare Porcelain
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De Waal is a master at conjuring the seductive power stored in things
Read MoreReview: Islamic State, the Murder of James Foley, and the Miasma of Horror that Continues Today
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A Gripping Account of an Unspeakable Horror, and Its Aftermath
Read More5 Hot Books: A New Take on Prohibition, Writings of an Internet Activist Who Died Tragically & More
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And a Memoir of Middle Age from Comedian Michael Ian Black
Read MoreBook Award News: It's Great Year for Women First-Time Fiction Authors
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The NBCC's John Leonard Long List is All Women and All Fiction Writers
Read MoreNews: Yikes! Adult Coloring Books Now Hold 9 of the Top 20 Spots on Amazon’s Bestsellers List
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The crayons-for-adults craze has a lot of fans -- and some critics, who find it disturbingly regressive
Read More5 Hot Books: A Harvard Business School Professor on How Your Bad Posture May Be Sabotaging You, Hitler Using Cocaine & More
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And Playwright David Hare's Memoir of Post-War England
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