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February 14, 2017

Q&A: Why 'Casablanca,' the Greatest of Bittersweet Romances, Endures After 75 Years

February 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Why 'Casablanca,' the Greatest of Bittersweet Romances, Endures After 75 Years

Idealists, Cynics, Nazis, Collaborators -- and, of Course, Bogart and Bergman

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February 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Casablanca, Movies, Hollywood
February 13, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Matt Taibbi on Trump's Rise, the Fall of an American Town, and More

February 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Matt Taibbi on Trump's Rise, the Fall of an American Town, and More

And George Saunders' Entrancing Abraham Lincoln Book

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February 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Deindustrialization
February 10, 2017

REVIEW: 'Black Edge' is a Smart Cautionary Tale of a Hedge Fund Gone Bad

February 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: 'Black Edge' is a Smart Cautionary Tale of a Hedge Fund Gone Bad

A Key Point: SAC Capital's Misdeeds are Inherent in the Hedge Fund Business

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February 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Hedge Funds, Wall Street, Insider Trading
February 08, 2017

Q&A: Min Jin Lee Talks Korea, Family, and Why Writing About Sex is Difficult

February 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Min Jin Lee Talks Korea, Family, and Why Writing About Sex is Difficult

And a Preview of the Novel She's Working on Next

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February 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Korean Literature, Immigration
February 07, 2017

QUOTABLE: We're Living in Aldous Huxley's Nightmare, Not Orwell's

February 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen
QUOTABLE: We're Living in Aldous Huxley's Nightmare, Not Orwell's

Our Fears Today Should Be of Huxley's Vision of Egoism and Passivity

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February 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Quotable
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Dystopia
February 06, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Daphne Merkin's Lively Memoir of Depression, Refugee Fiction, and More

February 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Daphne Merkin's Lively Memoir of Depression, Refugee Fiction, and More

And a Compelling Biography-Memoir about the Poet Elizabeth Bishop

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February 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Depression, Refugees, Vietnam, Poetry
February 05, 2017

READ THIS: In an All-Too-Timely Book, 8 Key Questions About the Holocaust

February 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen
READ THIS: In an All-Too-Timely Book, 8 Key Questions About the Holocaust

Lessons About the Dangers of Marginalization, Resentment, and Extreme Nationalism

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February 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Holocaust, Germany, Jews, Fascism
February 02, 2017

Q&A: A Young Man's Wry Memoir of Living With a Rare Illness: Gigantism

February 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Young Man's Wry Memoir of Living With a Rare Illness: Gigantism

Mike Scalise Manages to See the Humor in a Series of Terrible Medical Setbacks

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February 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Illiness, Gigantism, Memoir, Masculinity
January 30, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: America's Most Infamous Lynching, a Refugee Survives, and More

January 30, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: America's Most Infamous Lynching, a Refugee Survives, and More

And the Unhappy Story of the Real Woman Behind 'Dr. Zhivago'

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January 30, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
The Hot 5
Dr. Zhivago, Emmett Till, Syrian Refugees, Memoirs
January 27, 2017

COLUMN: An Illustrated History of Love and Sex Among the Literati

January 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
COLUMN: An Illustrated History of Love and Sex Among the Literati

Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. and More

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January 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Column
Ernest Hemingway, Love, Sex, Affairs
January 25, 2017

Q&A: Top Writers On the Last Taboo -- How they Make a Living (or Try to)

January 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Top Writers On the Last Taboo -- How they Make a Living (or Try to)

The Unromantic Reality: Being a Writer is Running Your Own Business

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January 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Craft of Writing, Freelancing, Publishing
January 23, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Radical Catholic Dorothy Day, Poet-of-Love Rumi, and More

January 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Radical Catholic Dorothy Day, Poet-of-Love Rumi, and More

And Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain Squaring Off Over American Imperialism

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January 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Dorothy Day, Rumi, Spanish-American War, Eyes on the Prize
January 20, 2017

COLUMN: As 2017 Begins, Looking Back on One of Last Year's Great Books

January 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen
COLUMN: As 2017 Begins, Looking Back on One of Last Year's Great Books

The Sellout is a Wild Ride Through America's Racial Politics

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January 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Column
African-American History, Fiction, Man Booker International Prize
January 17, 2017

5 Hot Books: Obama's Triumphant Presidency, Difficult Women, and More

January 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Obama's Triumphant Presidency, Difficult Women, and More

And a Daring Escape from a Brutal Chinese Labor Camp

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January 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Barack Obama, Roxanne Gay, China, Refugees
January 13, 2017

REVIEW: William Buckley and the Golden Age of Intellectual Conservatism

January 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: William Buckley and the Golden Age of Intellectual Conservatism

A Right-Wing TV Host Who Engaged Liberals In Honest Debate

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January 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Review
William Buckley, Conservatism, Television
January 11, 2017

REVIEW: Journalist Alexandra Wolfe Explores the Odd Folkways of Silicon Valley

January 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Journalist Alexandra Wolfe Explores the Odd Folkways of Silicon Valley

With a Literary Style Similar to that of Her Famous Father, Tom

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January 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Silicon Valley, Technology, College
January 09, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: The Truth About Sex on Campus, a Mother Tries LSD, and More

January 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
 5 HOT BOOKS: The Truth About Sex on Campus, a Mother Tries LSD, and More

And How Darwin's 'Origin of Species' Got Big in the United States

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January 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Mental Illness, Darwin, Mississippi
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
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