Q&A: On Triumphing Over a Dysfunction-Filled Childhood in Rural Arkansas
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A memoir from a music critic who decided failing was not an option
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5 Hot Books: A Heartbreaking Account of Families Being Evicted, the Secrets of Being Productive, and More
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Including a psychologically complex novel about life in the ballet world
Read MoreREVIEW: Do Young People Really Need to Study So Much Math? Maybe Not
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A professor argues for less pre-calculus, more practical math
Read MoreESSAY: What the Supreme Court’s Infamous 1927 Eugenics Decision Tells Us About Filling Justice Scalia’s Seat
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We need fewer justices who instinctively side with the powerful
Read More5 Hot Books: Single Women as a Political Force, an Irish-American Hero, and More
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And an alarming book about the threat posed by epidemics
Read MoreNEWS: Why is Mein Kampf Suddenly a Runaway Bestseller in Germany?
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It's now the second-best-selling book in Germany
Read MoreQ&A: Will We Ever Fix Our Broken, Discriminatory Voting System?
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Michael Waldman discusses his new book, The Fight to Vote
Read More5 Hot Books: A Memoir about a Pornographer Father, Muckraking About a Major Corporation & More
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Including an exploration of how the Internet is hurting teenage girls
Read MoreAPPRECIATION: 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
Read MoreNEWS: 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
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals