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May 27, 2017

REVIEW: A Gruesome Child Murder, as Told by a Victim of Childhood Sexual Abuse

May 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Gruesome Child Murder, as Told by a Victim of Childhood Sexual Abuse

A True Crime-Memoir Mashup that Has Strengths and Weaknesses

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May 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Child Abuse, True Crime, Murder
May 24, 2017

Q&A: How Did We End Up with this Far-Right Supreme Court?

May 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: How Did We End Up with this Far-Right Supreme Court?

Historian Laura Kalman Traces it All Back to Richard Nixon

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May 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Supreme Court, Conservatism, Law, Right-Wing Politics, Richard Nixon
May 22, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Churchill and Orwell, a Journalist's Africa Memoir, and More

May 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Churchill and Orwell, a Journalist's Africa Memoir, and More

And a Minnesotan's Travels through the World of High-End New York Restaurants

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May 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Winston Churchill, George Orwell, Africa, Palestinian Fiction, Restaurants
May 19, 2017

REVIEW: An Infamous 1917 Missing-Girl Case, and the Woman Detective Who Solved It

May 19, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: An Infamous 1917 Missing-Girl Case, and the Woman Detective Who Solved It

Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston Succeeded Where the Police Failed

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May 19, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Missing Girl, Women Lawyers, Women Detectives
May 17, 2017

COLUMN: 'Too Much and Not in the Mood' -- A Millennial's Wry Reflections on Life

May 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
COLUMN: 'Too Much and Not in the Mood' -- A Millennial's Wry Reflections on Life

With a Title Borrowed from Virginia Woolf's 'A Writer’s Diary'

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May 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Column
Millennials, Essays, Canadian Literature
May 15, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Fighting a Rare Illness, Muhammad Ali's Legal Woes, and More

May 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Fighting a Rare Illness, Muhammad Ali's Legal Woes, and More

And a Tale of Murder and Injustice in the Jim Crow South

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May 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Alabama, Disease, Parents
May 12, 2017

Q&A: Delving into the Life of the Inscrutable Jazz Legend Bix Beiderbecke

May 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Delving into the Life of the Inscrutable Jazz Legend Bix Beiderbecke

A Jazz Pioneer Who Was, Surprisingly, the Pride of Davenport, Iowa

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May 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Q & A
Jazz, Bix Beiderbecke, Iowa, Music
May 10, 2017

REVIEW: A Perceptive Look at the Two Sides of Richard M. Nixon

May 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Perceptive Look at the Two Sides of Richard M. Nixon

His Character Traits Fueled a Steady Rise, and an Ignominious Fall

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May 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Richard Nixon, Republicans, Presidency
May 09, 2017

NEWS: What is Bill Clinton Up to? Writing a Thriller With James Patterson

May 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: What is Bill Clinton Up to? Writing a Thriller With James Patterson

A Rare Foray Into Fiction by a Former President

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May 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
News
Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Thrillers
May 08, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Elizabeth Warren's Call to Arms, Hemingway, and More

May 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Elizabeth Warren's Call to Arms, Hemingway, and More

And Abraham Lincoln at a Pivotal Moment in His Political Evolution

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May 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Elizabeth Warren, Abraham Lincoln
May 05, 2017

READ THIS: Exploring the Psychological Damage Caused by Income Inequality

May 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen
READ THIS: Exploring the Psychological Damage Caused by Income Inequality

The Greater the Income Inequality in a Society, the Lower the Life Expectancy

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May 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Income Inequality, Economics, Poverty, Mental Health
May 03, 2017

REVIEW: 'Exit West': A Slender, Powerful Novel About the Refugee Experience

May 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: 'Exit West': A Slender, Powerful Novel About the Refugee Experience

Exploring the Pain of Immigration, and the Promise of a New Life

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May 03, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Refugees, Migrants, Middle East
May 01, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Joyful Memoir of Books, a Man With a Wife in a Psych Ward, and More

May 01, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Joyful Memoir of Books, a Man With a Wife in a Psych Ward, and More

And a Young Woman Who Fought Back Tenaciously After a Brain Aneurysm

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May 01, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Mental Illness, Book Reading, Brain Injury
April 28, 2017

AUDIO: It's Harper Lee's Birthday--Listen to Her Only Recorded 'Mockingbird' Interview

April 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen
AUDIO: It's Harper Lee's Birthday--Listen to Her Only Recorded 'Mockingbird' Interview

Lee Recalls Her "Sheer Numbness" at To Kill a Mockingbird's Extraordinary Success

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April 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Audio
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Southern Literature, Craft of Writing
April 26, 2017

Q&A: Abigail Pogrebin Talks About Her Year of Living Jewishly -- Very Jewishly

April 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Abigail Pogrebin Talks About Her Year of Living Jewishly -- Very Jewishly

And Why We All Need to Just Slow Down

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April 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Judaism, Religion, How-To, Holidays
April 24, 2017

5 Hot Books: A Revealing Look at David Letterman, Sheryl Sandberg on Grief, and More

April 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: A Revealing Look at David Letterman, Sheryl Sandberg on Grief, and More

And Britain's Lonely and Brave Battle Against the Nazis

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April 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Sherly Sandberg, David Letterman, Grief, World War II, The Presidency
April 21, 2017

Q&A: Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Talks About "Sex and the Constitution"

April 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Talks About "Sex and the Constitution"

Legal Battles Over Sex Are Often Really Battles Over Religion

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April 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Constitution, Sex, Law
April 18, 2017

Q&A: Margot Singer on Novel-Writing, Terrorism, and Crosscultural Understanding

April 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Margot Singer on Novel-Writing, Terrorism, and Crosscultural Understanding

And Her Novel About Visiting London During the July 7, 2005 Terrorist Bombings

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April 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Novel Writing, Terrorism, Anti-Semitism, Teaching Writing
April 17, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Murders in Indian Country, Blacks Imprisoning Blacks, and More

April 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Murders in Indian Country, Blacks Imprisoning Blacks, and More

And a New 'Great Gatsby,' Set in Small-Town North Carolina

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April 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Native Americans, Crime, Ambition
April 13, 2017

VIDEO: It's Eudora Welty's Birthday--Watch Her Talk With Gore Vidal About Religion in the South

April 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
VIDEO: It's Eudora Welty's Birthday--Watch Her Talk With Gore Vidal About Religion in the South

And How Girls from the Mississippi Delta Used to Be Different

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April 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Video
Mississippi, Eudora Welty, Religion
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