COLUMN: As 2017 Begins, Looking Back on One of Last Year's Great Books
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The Sellout is a Wild Ride Through America's Racial Politics
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5 Hot Books: Obama's Triumphant Presidency, Difficult Women, and More
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And a Daring Escape from a Brutal Chinese Labor Camp
Read MoreREVIEW: William Buckley and the Golden Age of Intellectual Conservatism
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A Right-Wing TV Host Who Engaged Liberals In Honest Debate
Read MoreREVIEW: Journalist Alexandra Wolfe Explores the Odd Folkways of Silicon Valley
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With a Literary Style Similar to that of Her Famous Father, Tom
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Truth About Sex on Campus, a Mother Tries LSD, and More
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And How Darwin's 'Origin of Species' Got Big in the United States
Read MoreESSAY: A Son Reflects on the Parallels Between Mike Royko and Randy Newman
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The Great Columnist and the Great Songwriter were Irreverent Intellectual Soulmates
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: World War I Pacifists, a Muslim Father Speaks Out, and More
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And a Minnesota Girl Comes of Age, with a Backdrop of Sexual Scandal
Read MoreREVIEW: All the MP’s Men: The Sex-and-Murder Scandal that Rocked 1970's England
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A Leading Politician Who Was Not at All What He Seemed
Read MoreREVIEW: A Korean Woman Fades Away, in a Booker-Prize-Winning Novel
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A Dark Story, Which Nevertheless Offers a Measure of Redemption
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Dark Christmas Stories, the Case Against Sugar, and More
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And a Chronicle of a Theater's Production of Shakespeare
Read MoreQ&A: Linda Fairstein, Legendary Sex Crimes Prosecutor, Talks About Writing Mysteries
/Following, Very Intentionally, in the Path of Nancy Drew
Read MoreLITERARY GIFTS: Some Ideas for the Bibliophiles in Your Life
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Including an Art Poster that Contains Every Word of The Sun Also Rises
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Tony Bennett on Great Artists, an Iconic Cartoonist, and More
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And a New Biography of Elvis Presley, 40 Years after His Untimely Death
Read MoreQ&A: A Casual Chat With "My All-Time Favorite" (Now Repentant) "Bank Robber"
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"Bondage is bondage, sister. Marriages on the brink are their own kind of solitary confinement
Read MoreREVIEW: Michael Lewis on the Complicated Friendship that Created Behavioral Economics
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Two Opposites Who Attracted Each Other -- Until they Didn't
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Interracial Love, a Literary Feud, Black Pepper and Vanilla, and More
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And an American Catholic's Meditation on Pope Francis
Read MoreNEWS: Lin-Manuel Miranda + the 'Kingkiller Chronicle' -- Count Us In
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The Hottest Broadway Artist Joins Forces With a Fantasy Literature Phenomenon
Read MoreESSAY: Notes from the Underground (Railroad): Two Novelists Take on Slavery
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One Definitive Work on the Subject, One that is More Problematic
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show,' Rethinking Pearl Harbor, and More
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And a New History of AIDS that Recounts the War on an Epidemic
Read MoreQ&A: Floyd Skloot Talks About Imagining the Life of Thomas Hardy
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And Making Himself a Character in a Fictional Memoir of the Great Writer
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals