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January 05, 2017

ESSAY: A Son Reflects on the Parallels Between Mike Royko and Randy Newman

January 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: A Son Reflects on the Parallels Between Mike Royko and Randy Newman

The Great Columnist and the Great Songwriter were Irreverent Intellectual Soulmates

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January 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Essay
Mike Royko, Randy Newman, Chicago
January 03, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: World War I Pacifists, a Muslim Father Speaks Out, and More

January 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: World War I Pacifists, a Muslim Father Speaks Out, and More

And a Minnesota Girl Comes of Age, with a Backdrop of Sexual Scandal

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January 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
World War I, Pacifism, Minnesota, Islam, Egypt, Australian Literature
December 23, 2016

REVIEW: All the MP’s Men: The Sex-and-Murder Scandal that Rocked 1970's England

December 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: All the MP’s Men: The Sex-and-Murder Scandal that Rocked 1970's England

A Leading Politician Who Was Not at All What He Seemed

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December 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Britain, Homosexuality, LGBT, Parliament
December 21, 2016

REVIEW: A Korean Woman Fades Away, in a Booker-Prize-Winning Novel

December 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Korean Woman Fades Away, in a Booker-Prize-Winning Novel

A Dark Story, Which Nevertheless Offers a Measure of Redemption

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December 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Korean Literature, Fiction, Vegetarianism
December 19, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Dark Christmas Stories, the Case Against Sugar, and More

December 19, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Dark Christmas Stories, the Case Against Sugar, and More

And a Chronicle of a Theater's Production of Shakespeare

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December 19, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Philadelphia, Christmas Literature, Shakespeare
December 16, 2016

Q&A: Linda Fairstein, Legendary Sex Crimes Prosecutor, Talks About Writing Mysteries

December 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen

Following, Very Intentionally, in the Path of Nancy Drew

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December 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Linda Fairstein, Mysteries, Craft of Writing, Children's Literature
December 14, 2016

LITERARY GIFTS: Some Ideas for the Bibliophiles in Your Life

December 14, 2016/ Adam Cohen
LITERARY GIFTS: Some Ideas for the Bibliophiles in Your Life

Including an Art Poster that Contains Every Word of The Sun Also Rises

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December 14, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Literary Gifts
Games, Posters, Candles
December 12, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Tony Bennett on Great Artists, an Iconic Cartoonist, and More

December 12, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Tony Bennett on Great Artists, an Iconic Cartoonist, and More

And a New Biography of Elvis Presley, 40 Years after His Untimely Death

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December 12, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Elvis Presley, Cartoons, Popular Music, Feminism
December 09, 2016

Q&A: A Casual Chat With "My All-Time Favorite" (Now Repentant) "Bank Robber"

December 09, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Casual Chat With "My All-Time Favorite" (Now Repentant) "Bank Robber"

"Bondage is bondage, sister. Marriages on the brink are their own kind of solitary confinement

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December 09, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Crime, Bank Robbery, Prisons
December 07, 2016

REVIEW: Michael Lewis on the Complicated Friendship that Created Behavioral Economics

December 07, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Michael Lewis on the Complicated Friendship that Created Behavioral Economics

Two Opposites Who Attracted Each Other -- Until they Didn't

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December 07, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Daniel Kahneman, Behavioral Economics, Friendship
December 05, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Interracial Love, a Literary Feud, Black Pepper and Vanilla, and More

December 05, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Interracial Love, a Literary Feud, Black Pepper and Vanilla, and More

And an American Catholic's Meditation on Pope Francis

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December 05, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Pope Francis, Women Scientists, Vladamir Nabokov
December 02, 2016

NEWS: Lin-Manuel Miranda + the 'Kingkiller Chronicle' -- Count Us In

December 02, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Lin-Manuel Miranda + the 'Kingkiller Chronicle' -- Count Us In

The Hottest Broadway Artist Joins Forces With a Fantasy Literature Phenomenon

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December 02, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
News
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patrick Rothfuss, Kingkiller Chronicle
November 30, 2016

ESSAY: Notes from the Underground (Railroad): Two Novelists Take on Slavery

November 30, 2016/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: Notes from the Underground (Railroad): Two Novelists Take on Slavery

One Definitive Work on the Subject, One that is More Problematic

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November 30, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Slavery, Underground Railroad, Cultural Appropriation, African-American Literature
November 28, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show,' Rethinking Pearl Harbor, and More

November 28, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show,' Rethinking Pearl Harbor, and More

And a New History of AIDS that Recounts the War on an Epidemic

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November 28, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Pearl Harbor, The Daily Show, Japan, Country Music
November 23, 2016

Q&A: Floyd Skloot Talks About Imagining the Life of Thomas Hardy

November 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Floyd Skloot Talks About Imagining the Life of Thomas Hardy

And Making Himself a Character in a Fictional Memoir of the Great Writer

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November 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Q & A
Thomas Hardy, Memoir, English Literature, Fiction
November 21, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Bellevue Hospital, Bernie Sanders on the Way Forward, and More

November 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Bellevue Hospital, Bernie Sanders on the Way Forward, and More

And an American Muslim Girl, Now Woman, Tells Her Story

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November 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Bellevue Hospital, Bernie Sanders, Islam, The Caribbean, Jewish Literature
November 18, 2016

Q&A: The Reporter Who (May Have) Unmasked Elena Ferrante: "I Have No Regrets"

November 18, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: The Reporter Who (May Have) Unmasked Elena Ferrante: "I Have No Regrets"

"I am an investigative journalist and part of my job is to expose lies"

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November 18, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Elena Ferrante, Claudio Gatti, Italian Literature
November 16, 2016

REVIEW: A Hungarian Writer Who's Nearly Impenetrable, but Well Worth the Effort

November 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Hungarian Writer Who's Nearly Impenetrable, but Well Worth the Effort

Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai a “contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse”

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November 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Review
Hungary, Hungarian Literature, Man Booker International Prize, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
November 14, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Video of the JFK Assassination, New Zadie Smith, and More

November 14, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Video of the JFK Assassination,  New Zadie Smith, and More

And a Law Professor's Critical Look at the Rise of Online Advertising

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November 14, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
JFK Assassination, Zadie Smith
November 11, 2016

REVIEW: Black Elk, the Sioux Holy Man Who Just Got His Name on a Mountain

November 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Black Elk, the Sioux Holy Man Who Just Got His Name on a Mountain

He Saw the Wounded Knee Massacre and Traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

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November 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Review
Native Americans, Indians, Lakota, South Dakota
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