NEWS: Jonathan Franzen Will Be Competing on "Jeopardy!" – and the Schadenfreude Has Already Begun . . .
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But America's birds stand to win if Franzen wins
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Q&A: Thomas Frank on the Democrats' Disgrace: Abandoning Working-Class Americans
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The Democratic Party is "committed to the winners in the inequality sweepstakes"
Read More5 Hot Books: A Compelling New History of the Spanish Civil War, an Iranian Human Rights Memoir, and More
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And a new novel from Edna O'Brien about a country girl and a genocidal visitor
Read MoreAUDIO: Today is Flannery O'Connor's Birthday -- Listen to Her Talking About the Grotesque in Southern Literature
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She explains what she said when she was asked why Southern writers write so much about freaks
Read MoreREVIEW: A Gorgeous, Empathetic Novel About a Terrorist Bombing in India
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Looking at the unhappiness of everyone involved, including the bomber
Read MoreNEWS: Bestselling Author James Patterson’s Bold New Idea: Bring on the Mini-Book
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And it could be a smart move in this age of the short attention span
Read MoreESSAY: Single Ladies, Spinsters, and Women Unbound: The Politics of Female Loneliness
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Feminism and lower marriage rates are not the reasons people are lonely
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Mass Incarceration, a Novel About Siblings at Each Others' Throats, and More
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And two books, a novel and a memoir, that won National Book Circle Awards last week
Read MoreNEWS: National Book Critic Circle Awards Go to 'Negroland' and a Memoir of Love and Gender Fluidity (but Not Ta-Nehisi Coates)
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Two big books about race win -- and one does not
Read MoreREVIEW: Are the Democratic and Republican Parties Both Imploding at the Same Time?
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This may be remembered as the year that American politics went crazy
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: F.D.R. as a Crusading Environmentalist, Parisian Existentialists and More
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Including a New Collection of Annie Dillard Essays
Read MoreREVIEW: A "Delightful Page-Turner" About a Young Woman Who Was Hit By a Truck
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A novel about losing things great and small
Read MoreQ&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
Read More5 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
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