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August 23, 2017

LIST: Who Won and Who Lost at this Year's Hugo Awards

August 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen
LIST: Who Won and Who Lost at this Year's Hugo Awards

Among the Top Winners, for a Change: Women Writers

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August 23, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
List
Hugo Awards, Science Fiction, Fantasy
August 21, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Scandal Involving the World's Richest Woman, Monica Lewinsky, and More

August 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Scandal Involving the World's Richest Woman, Monica Lewinsky, and More

And a Turkish Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk's New Novel

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August 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Liliane Bettencourt, Monica Lewinsky, Orhan Palmuk
August 18, 2017

Q&A: Julia Keller on the Craft of Mystery-Writing (Pro-Tip: Coffee, Coffee, and More Coffee)

August 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A:  Julia Keller on the Craft of Mystery-Writing (Pro-Tip: Coffee, Coffee, and More Coffee)

Balzac Reputedly Drank 14 Cups a Day -- Keller Says, Double That

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August 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Craft of Writing, Mysteries, Writing Techniques
August 16, 2017

REVIEW: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M Forster--and a Magical Year

August 16, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M Forster--and a Magical Year

For Modern Literature, 1922 Was the Beginning of Everything

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August 16, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster
August 14, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Reading Children's Books as an Adult, Injustice in North Carolina, and More

August 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Reading Children's Books as an Adult, Injustice in North Carolina, and More

And an American Abroad Contemplates Her Nation's Place in the World

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August 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Children's Books, Wrongful Conviction, Foreign Affairs
August 11, 2017

ESSAY: The Great Studs Terkel, Immortalized on Canvas, in His Hometown

August 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: The Great Studs Terkel, Immortalized on Canvas, in His Hometown

An Enthralling Portrait of the Oral History Legend, Tape Recorder in Hand

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August 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Essay
Studs Turkel, Chicago
August 09, 2017

REVIEW: A New Biography Charts RFK's Idealistic Rise and Tragic End

August 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A New Biography Charts RFK's Idealistic Rise and Tragic End

It Resurrects a Ghost who Reminds Us that Power Need not Harden and Corrupt

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August 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedys, American Politics, 1960s
August 07, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Inventing Cornflakes, Brothers in a Drug Cartel, and More

August 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Inventing Cornflakes, Brothers in a Drug Cartel, and More

And an Insightful Memoir from a Veteran Woman Computer Coder

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August 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Computer Coding, Drugs, Kelloggs
August 04, 2017

Q&A: Achy Obejas on Being Cuban-American, Sexuality, Exile, and Her Short Stories

August 04, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Achy Obejas on Being Cuban-American, Sexuality, Exile, and Her Short Stories

"Cuba is at the heart of my fiction, even when it’s just an echo"

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August 04, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Cuba, Cuban-Americans, Exile
August 02, 2017

REVIEW: What Made Maddy Run? And What Made Her Take Her Own Life?

August 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: What Made Maddy Run? And What Made Her Take Her Own Life?

Trying to Make Sense of an Exceptional Student Athlete's Death

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August 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Suicide, School Athletics, Competition, Depression
July 31, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Dunkirk History that Enriches the Movie, Jim and Tammy Faye, and More

July 31, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Dunkirk History that Enriches the Movie, Jim and Tammy Faye, and More

And a Novel about Economic Decline in a Haunted Victorian Fixer-Upper

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July 31, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Dunkirk, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Essays
July 28, 2017

REVIEW: Tom Perotta's New Novel is a Sharp Post-MillenNial DramEdy

July 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Tom Perotta's New Novel is a Sharp Post-MillenNial DramEdy

He eviscerates sexting, Skype, Facebook, Tinder, and internet porn, among other things

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July 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Higher Education, Feminism, PC Culture
July 26, 2017

REVIEW: Romps and Send-Offs: a Collection of Smart, Sardonic Literary Essays

July 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Romps and Send-Offs: a Collection of Smart, Sardonic Literary Essays

Kleinzahler is a poet with a real gift for writing prose

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July 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
August Kleinzahler, Collected Essays, Poetry
July 24, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Al Gore on Global Warming, New York Gentrification, and More

July 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Al Gore on Global Warming, New York Gentrification, and More

And a Nobel Prize Winner's Oral History of Russian Women of WW II

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July 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Global Warming, New York City, Al Gore
July 21, 2017

READ THIS: The Early Criminal Trial that Could Have Stopped Hitler's Rise

July 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
READ THIS: The Early Criminal Trial that Could Have Stopped Hitler's Rise

A Gripping Narrative About the Beer Hall Putsch Prosecution

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July 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Adolf Hitler, Beer Hall Putsch, World War II, Germany
July 19, 2017

ESSAY: It's a New Game of Thrones Season, but Where is the Next Book?

July 19, 2017/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: It's a New Game of Thrones Season, but Where is the Next Book?

The TV Show Has Pulled Ahead of the Books in Plot, and That Continues

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July 19, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
July 17, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Trump's Dark Lieutenant, India's Untouchables, and More

July 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Trump's Dark Lieutenant, India's Untouchables, and More

And a Rollicking Look at Celebrities and Why We Care About Them

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July 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Steve Bannon, Untouchables, India, Celebrities
July 14, 2017

REVIEW: Exploring the Secret History of American Racial Segregation

July 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Exploring the Secret History of American Racial Segregation

And How it Created Our Current, Toxic Political Polarization

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July 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Racial Discrimination, Racial Segregation, Gerrymandering
July 12, 2017

Q&A: John Bohrer on His Biography of the 'Revolutionary' Robert F. Kennedy

July 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: John Bohrer on His Biography of the 'Revolutionary' Robert F. Kennedy

RFK Transformed Himself After the Death of JFK

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July 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
July 10, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: A Bob Marley Oral History, 'Who is Rich?' and More

July 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Bob Marley Oral History, 'Who is Rich?' and More

And a Look at the High-Stakes War for Cyberspace

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July 10, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Bob Marley, Police, Cybersecurity
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