OUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORES: Detroit's Shabby, Wonderful John K. King Used & Rare Books
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All of Mr. King’s resources were spent on what is actually important: over one million books
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REVIEW: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman Reflects on 20 Years of Speaking Truth to Power
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Her account is as much media criticism as political critique
Read More5 Hot Books: Hamilton, the Brilliant Musical – Now a Brilliant Book, Rethinking Thomas Jefferson, and More
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And an anthology by writers, mainly, on the books that changed their lives
Read MoreVIDEO: Today is Lyricist Yip Harburg's Birthday -- Here He Is Singing "Over the Rainbow" and Explaining the Idealism Behind It
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He says he wanted to create a "better world, a rainbow world"
Read MoreQ&A: The Pioneering Female New Deal Lawyer Who Went from an Orphan's Home to the Supreme Court
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Bessie Margolin shaped equal rights law for generations -- and prosecuted Nazis
Read MoreREVIEW: When America's First Serial Killer Preyed on the Women of 19th Century Texas
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A story of violent crime, race, and small-town Austin on its way to becoming a big-league city
Read More5 Hot Books: A Journalist Investigates Her Rapist, Trying to Make Sense of the Middle East, and More
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And an acclaimed memoirist's appreciation of soul singer James Brown
Read MoreReview: A History of a Smallpox Epidemic in 1721 Boston that Puts Colonial New England Under the Microscope
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It's a story that fans of medical history will find hard to resist
Read MoreNEWS: 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
Read MoreQ&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
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals