REVIEW: A Road Trip Through America's Utopias (Which Were Not All that Perfect)
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A Drive that Spans from Shakers in Kentucky to Thoreau's Pond in Massachusetts
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Q&A: Lili Wright Talks About Plotting Thrillers, Writing About Mexico, and Turning Truth into Fiction
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And Why She Finds Male Characters Easier to Write than Female Ones
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: An Alaska Adventure, a Victorian Mother-Murderer, and More
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And a Novel About the Frayed American Dream in Suburban Los Angeles
Read MoreESSAY: If You Loved HBO's 'The Wire,' Here are Some Books that Drill Down Deeper on Race, Class, and Crime (and TV)
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Actors' Memoirs, Academic Studies, and Some Heartfelt Looks at the American Underclass
Read MoreREVIEW: A Critical History of the Olympic Games -- Racism, Sexism, and Doping Very Much Included
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And Some Stories of Athleticism, Courage, and Sportsmanship Mixed In
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Jeffrey Toobin on Patricia Hearst, a New Dave Eggers Novel, and More
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And David Cay Johnston Takes on the Life of Donald Trump
Read MoreOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORES: At the Strand, in New York, It's All About the Words
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A Point That's Really Driven Home in the Famous Basement Bins
Read MoreREVIEW: Obama Is One of America's Great Presidents -- Whether the Right Wing Admits It Or Not
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And There's Still Room for Him on Mt. Rushmore
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Brazillian Billionaires, a Guide to the Zika Epidemic and More
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And a Novel Set in the Shadowy Corners of the Mexican Art World
Read MoreQ&A: Jonathan Levi Talks About 'Septimania,' His Ambitious New Novel of History and Ideas
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A Heady Story that Moves Between 8th Century France and the 1970s
Read MoreREVIEW: 'The Veins of the Ocean,' a Novel About a Florida Woman on the Brink, Considers What it Means to Be Free
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In Life, It Turns Out, There Are Many Ways to Be Trapped
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: New Biographies of Helen Gurley Brown and Robert Kennedy and More
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And a Novel About a Hurricane Katrina Refugee in Search of Redemption
Read MoreESSAY: Complicated Midwesterners: Garrison Keillor and David Foster Wallace
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Two Writers Who Are a Layered Mix of the Heartland and the East Coast
Read More5 Hot Books: Investigating the Brutal Murder of an American in South Africa, an Appalachian Memoir, and More
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And a Baseball Book about a Real-Life "Field of Dreams"
Read MoreVIDEO: Miaira Jennings Talks About "The Girl on the Train" -- and Previews the Upcoming Movie
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With a Suggestion for an Alternative Ending
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5 HOT BOOKS: A Study of "White Trash," a Novel About a Dying Dog, and More
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And an Alabama Rape Trial that May Have Inspired To Kill A Mockingbird
Read MoreESSAY: Creeping Fascism: Sinclair Lewis Warned Us It Can Happen Here -- and Maybe It Is
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A 1935 Novel with Strong Parallels to 2016 America
Read More5 Hot Books: The Story of a Lynching, Inside a Virginia Homicide Squad, and More
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And a Middle-Aged Mom's Memoir About Taking Up Motorcycling
Read MoreREVIEW: A Fine Novel, Based on a Real-Life Case of Literary "Catfishing"
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It's Also a Meditation on the Craft of Writing and the Love of Literature
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