APPRECIATION: On David Foster Wallace’s Birthday, Here are Five of his Remarkable Essays – on State Fairs, 9/11 and More
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The author of Infinite Jest would have been 54 today
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NEWS: Harper Lee (1926-2016) – An Appreciation (and an Against-the-Grain Prediction)
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The reputation of her second book, Go Set a Watchman, is likely to grow
Read MoreREVIEW: A Fantastic Novel of a Black Hustler in 1920's Harlem
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Using the horror genre to convey the pain of the black American experience
Read MoreOPINION: The Polish Government's Shameful Attack on a Holocaust Historian
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Will Jan Gross be stripped of an honor for writing about Polish anti-Semitism?
Read More5 Hot Books: A N.Y. Times Critic's Guide to Current Music, a Memoir from the Columbine Killer's Mom & More
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And an NBC journalist's memories of reporting in the Middle East
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Susan B. Anthony's Birthday. This is Her Great Speech on Her Arrest for Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election
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"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizen"
Read MoreNEWS: Very Good to Hear: Bookstore Sales Rise for the First Time Since 2007
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A welcome, and to many unexpected, 2.5% increase
Read MoreREVIEW: Making the Butchers of the Balkan Wars Pay for their Crimes
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A triumph, of sorts, for international human rights
Read MoreNEWS: Wizards and Muggles Rejoice: J.K. Rowlings Just Announced a New Harry Potter Book is Coming Out This Summer
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It's scheduled to go on sale midnight July 31
Read MoreQ&A: What Can We Learn from Studying Translations of the Bible?
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Translation, Aviya Kushner says, is "a state of the soul"
Read MoreNEWS: Google’s Wild New Book Venture: A Bookstore of Smartphone-Based “Books that Cannot Be Printed”
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Google boasts that these books can do things that print books cannot
Read MoreVIDEO: On John Grisham's Birthday, This Is Him Talking About How He Wrote, and Sold, His Novel 'The Firm'
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It all started with a law school friend who interviewed with a law firm
Read More5 Hot Books: N.Y. Times Film Critic A.O. Scott's Brilliant Meditation on Criticism, Behind the Scenes at Broadway Musicals, and More
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And a book on Eleanor Roosevelt's friendship with an African-American Lesbian civil rights activist
Read MoreNEWS: Megyn Kelly Has Reportedly Signed a $10 Million Book Deal. Could Her Speed-Written Memoir Possibly Be Worth It?
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The book, reportedly a memoir, is scheduled to hit the bookstores this fall
Read MoreREVIEW: Theodore Roosevelt Deserves a Lot of the Credit--or Blame--for the Rise of Presidential Primaries
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In 1912, party primaries were considered a great progressive reform
Read MoreNEWS: What Books are College Students Reading? A Cool New Online Tool Reveals All
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Traditionalists will like the #1 book: The Elements of Style
Read MoreREVIEW: Just How Satisfied Should Liberals be with the Obama Presidency?
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Liberal pundit Bill Press's answer is: not very
Read MoreNEWS: Wow! Amazon May Be About to Open Hundreds of Bricks-and-Mortar Bookstores
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And at this point, there are more questions about the report than answers
Read MoreVIDEO: On his 114th Birthday, Here is Langston Hughes Explaining How He Wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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A poem written while crossing the Mississippi by train at twilight
Read More5 Hot Books: Diane Rehm's Somber Memoir, a Stunning Novel About an Opera Star in 19th Century Paris, and More
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Including a six-generation family history from Lena Horne's daughter
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