5 Hot Books: New Sebastian Junger, and Gov. Hickenlooper's Honest Memoir
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And a Sprawling Novel about Race and Horse Racing
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Q&A: A New York Times Reporter Tells the Inside Story of Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah
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A Good-Natured Horse, who Was the First Triple Crown Winner in 37 years
Read MoreREVIEW: When Oneida, N.Y. was a Center of Utopianism, Eugenics, and Free Love
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As Told by a Historian who is also a Descendant of Oneida's Wild and Woolly Utopians
Read More5 Hot Books: A Rollicking-Good Book About the Rolling Stones, a Shrill Woman Speaks, and More
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And the History of Paper You Didn't Know You Needed
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A Sharply Written Memoir About Life in the the Bubble -- in More Ways than One
Read MoreREVIEW: Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?
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A Harvard historian links our Crowded Prisons to President Johnson's War on Poverty
Read MoreNEWS: What One Book Would Tom Hanks Take With Him to a Desert Island?
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He Gave his Answer on a Recent Episode of BBC's "Desert Island Discs" Radio Show
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Don DeLillo's Big New Novel, Pit Bulls, and a Gay Conversion Therapy Memoir
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And a fiction anthology about the loss of privacy in modern society
Read MoreESSAY: We are in a “Camus Moment” — but What Can the Great French-Algerian Author Teach Us About the World Today?
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It's all the rage these days to cite Camus as an expert on colonialism, terrorism, and East-West relations
Read MoreNEWS: Hulu Announces a Big New Adaptation of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"
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The good news: it could hardly be worse than the 1990 movie adaptation
Read More5 Hot Books: A Rich Memoir of Older Women Playing Bridge, a Novel of an Unhappy Family, and More
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And a Princeton Historian's Look Back at the Long Gas Lines of the 1970s
Read MoreREVIEW: "Shelter" is a Compelling Novel of the Sometimes Chilly Bond Between Child and Parents
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And there are some serious tragedies and dramas added to the mix
Read MoreQ&A: Burt Neuborne on "Madison's Music," a Bold New Approach to Interpreting the Constitution
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Reading the Constitution with an eye toward poetry and music
Read MoreNEWS: New York Times Closing its Paris-Based Editing Offices, Ending a Journalism Era
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As many as 70 jobs will be lost or relocated, the latest casualties in a time of shrinking budgets
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Michael Kinsley on Old Age, a New Barbra Streisand Biography, and More
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And Pride and Prejudice Transferred to Modern-Day Cincinnatti
Read MoreRant: Why Is George R. R. Martin Writing His Books So Slowly--and Why are they Getting So Long?
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With our adoration, we give him this power
Read MoreNEWS: Tonight is the Start of Passover, and We Now Know What Albert Einstein Thought About It
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There was one thing about the holiday that he fully believed in
Read MoreREVIEW: "Lab Girl" is the Story of a Brilliant Woman Scientist With Literary Flair
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A passion for plant science -- and a drive to overcome obstacles
Read MoreQ&A: Adina Hoffman on Three Architects Who Built the Modern City of Jerusalem
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One Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, one British colonial, and one whose origins are mysterious
Read MoreHot 5: A Delightful Tale of Mark Twain's Round-the-World Speaking Tour, the Meaning of the Ghetto, and More
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And a sociological look at the history of the ghetto
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals