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April 07, 2017

Q&A: Brunonia Barry on her Modern Witch’s Tale, ‘The Fifth Petal,’ and Salem’s Past and Present

April 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Brunonia Barry on her Modern Witch’s Tale, ‘The Fifth Petal,’ and Salem’s Past and Present

An Author Who Jumped From Self-Publishing to the New York Times Best Sellers List

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Witchcraft, Salem, Self-Publishing
April 05, 2017

COLUMN: Camille Paglia Serves Up Her Famous Wit (and a Few Tired Battles)

April 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen
COLUMN: Camille Paglia Serves Up Her Famous Wit (and a Few Tired Battles)

Her Constant Theme: All of Western Civilization is the Triumph of the Apollonians over the Dionysians

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April 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Feminism, Pop Culture, Camille Paglia
April 03, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Riveting Mississippi Thriller, American Evangelicals, and More

April 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Riveting Mississippi Thriller, American Evangelicals, and More

And a Sympathetic Look at the Much-Maligned Prince Charles

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April 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Evangelicals, Mississippi Fiction
March 29, 2017

Q&A: Shining a New Light on Underappreciated Women Artists

March 29, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Shining a New Light on Underappreciated Women Artists

A Literary Critic Returns to Her Early Fascination with the Visual Arts

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March 29, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Women Artists, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
March 27, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Do Bad Brains Create Murderers?, Dictionary Stories, and More

March 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Do Bad Brains Create Murderers?, Dictionary Stories, and More

And How Income Inequality Threatens American Democracy

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March 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Brain Science, United Arab Emirates, Death of the Middle Class
March 24, 2017

REVIEW: A Heartfelt Memoir of Syria's Better Days, Before the Endless War

March 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Heartfelt Memoir of Syria's Better Days, Before the Endless War

Syrian-American Alia Malek Explores a World Her Family Left Behind

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March 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Syria, Middle East, Syrian Refugees
March 22, 2017

REVIEW: Matt Taibbi on Donald Trump, Our 'Insane Clown President'

March 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Matt Taibbi on Donald Trump, Our 'Insane Clown President'

With Cartoon-Like Illustrations that Bring the Horror to Life

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March 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Donald Trump, Republicans, Presidential Campaign
March 20, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Writing "Les Miserables," How We Let Down "Crazy People," and More

March 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Writing "Les Miserables," How We Let Down "Crazy People," and More

And a Novel about the Roiling Campus Politics at a New England College

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March 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Mental Illness, Les Miserables, Campus Politics
March 17, 2017

REVIEW: High Noon, a Classic Western as McCarthy-Era Political Allegory

March 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: High Noon, a Classic Western as McCarthy-Era Political Allegory

A Sheriff Who Showed the Importance of Standing Up to Thuggery

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March 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
High Noon, Hollywood, McCarthy Era, House Un-American Affairs Committee, Communism
March 15, 2017

Q&A: Penguin Classics Chooses 6 Timeless Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy

March 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Penguin Classics Chooses 6 Timeless Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Books from Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, T.H. White, and More

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March 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Neil Gaiman, The Literary Canon
March 13, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Complicated Architect, an Advice Columnist's Memoir and More

March 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Complicated Architect, an Advice Columnist's Memoir and More

And a former New York Times China Hand's Advice on Dealing with China

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March 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Architecture, Turkish-American Literature, Memoir
March 10, 2017

REVIEW: Didion's Artist Sketchbook of Her Travels in the South and West

March 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Didion's Artist Sketchbook of Her Travels in the South and West

Her Notebook Gives Insight Into the Technique of One of Our Greatest Writers

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March 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Joan Didion, The South, The West
March 08, 2017

COLUMN: A Revelatory Memoir from an Emotionally Abused Classical Musician

March 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen
COLUMN: A Revelatory Memoir from an Emotionally Abused Classical Musician

An Oboist Who Was Powerfully Drawn to Music as a Child, and Healed by It

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March 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Column
Memoir, Classical Music, Child Abuse
March 06, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A New Way to Look at Lincoln, Saving the Great Lakes and More

March 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A New Way to Look at Lincoln, Saving the Great Lakes and More

And a Liberian-Born New York Times Journalist Looks at Her Home Country

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March 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Abraham Lincoln, Environmentalism, Liberia
March 03, 2017

REVIEW: Richly Told, and All-Too-Timely, Stories of the Refugee Experience

March 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Richly Told, and All-Too-Timely, Stories of the Refugee Experience

Stories of Vietnamese-Americans that Contain Universal Truths

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March 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Vietnamese-American Literature, Short Stories
March 01, 2017

ESSAY: On the Gorsuch Nomination -- and Remembering Thurgood Marshall

March 01, 2017/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: On the Gorsuch Nomination -- and Remembering Thurgood Marshall

Oh for the Days When a Supreme Court Appointment Moved the Nation Forward

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March 01, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Neil Gorsuch, Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court
February 27, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Famous Writer and a Murderer, a Mentally Ill Poet, and More

February 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Famous Writer and a Murderer, a Mentally Ill Poet, and More

And the Scourge of For-Profit Higher Education

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February 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Norman Mailer, For-Profit Colleges, Robert Lowell
February 24, 2017

NEWS: A Book-Lover's Guide to Sunday Night's Academy Awards

February 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: A Book-Lover's Guide to Sunday Night's Academy Awards

2016 Was a Good Year for Literary Adaptations in Hollywood

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February 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment /Source
News
Academy Awards, Movie Adaptations, Films
February 21, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Vaccine Scientists, a History of Rorschach Tests, and More

February 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Vaccine Scientists, a History of Rorschach Tests, and More

And a Thriller About a Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

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February 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Medicine, Science, Psychiatry, Chinese-American Fiction
February 17, 2017

Q&A: Beyond Cather and Bellow: A Smart Guide to the Fiction of the New American Midwest

February 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Beyond Cather and Bellow: A Smart Guide to the Fiction of the New American Midwest

It's Not Just About Prairies and Farms and Smokestacks and Skyscrapers Anymore

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February 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Midwest, Fiction, Regionalism, Rural America
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