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October 11, 2017

REVIEW: A Novel of Fathers, Sons, Small-Town Virtues -- and Baseball

October 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Novel of Fathers, Sons, Small-Town Virtues -- and Baseball

A Game that is, as the Saying Goes, "Dull Only to Dull Minds"

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Baseball, Midwest, Small Towns
October 09, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Chernow on President Grant, Photographer Vivian Maier, and More

October 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Chernow on President Grant, Photographer Vivian Maier, and More

And a Provocative Look at Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook

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Ulysses S. Grant, Vivian Maier, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook
October 06, 2017

REVIEW: 'Doughnut Economics': A Humane, 21st Century Take on the Dismal Science

October 06, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: 'Doughnut Economics': A Humane, 21st Century Take on the Dismal Science

With a Focus on Ensuring that Humanity's Basic Needs Get Met

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Review
Economics, Money
October 04, 2017

REVIEW: Jennifer Egan's 'Manhattan Beach' is an 'Astounding Eye-Opener'

October 04, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Jennifer Egan's 'Manhattan Beach' is an 'Astounding Eye-Opener'

A Rich Period Story with a Blockbuster of an Ending

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Review
New York City, Novels, Women in Literature
October 02, 2017

5 Hot Books: A Muhammad Ali Biography, Jennifer Egan's New Novel, and More

October 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: A Muhammad Ali Biography, Jennifer Egan's New Novel, and More

And Ta-Nehisi Coates's Lament: 'We Were Eight Years in Power'

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Muhammad Ali, Chicago Cubs, African-American History
September 29, 2017

Q&A: Adam McOmber on Writing Horror, Growing up Gay in Ohio, and Church

September 29, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Adam McOmber on Writing Horror, Growing up Gay in Ohio, and Church

"Religion was everywhere, and I understood that it was against me."

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Q & A
Horror, Gay Literature, Ohio
September 27, 2017

READ THIS: Jennet Conant's Superb Biography of Harvard President James Conant

September 27, 2017/ Adam Cohen
READ THIS: Jennet Conant's Superb Biography of Harvard President James Conant

University Reformer, FDR Advisor, and a Key Player in Developing the Atom Bomb

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James Conant, Harvard University, Atom Bomb
September 25, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: The Battle of Dunkirk, Art Garfunkel Looks Back, and More

September 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Battle of Dunkirk, Art Garfunkel Looks Back, and More

And a Media Entrepreneur's 400-Year History of American Capitalism

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September 22, 2017

Q&A: A Family Memoir of Abraham Zapruder's JFK Assassination Film

September 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Family Memoir of Abraham Zapruder's JFK Assassination Film

A Granddaughter's Perspective on an Iconic Piece of American History

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September 22, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Kennedy Assassination, Abraham Zapruder, Films
September 20, 2017

Q&A: 'It's My Party': The Story of a Glittering Life, with a Few Demons

September 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: 'It's My Party': The Story of a Glittering Life, with a Few Demons

Jeannette Watson Talks About Privilege, Setbacks, and Writing Her Memoir

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September 20, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Q & A
IBM, Depression, Book Stores
September 18, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Concentration Camps, Sexism in Silicon Valley, and More

September 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Concentration Camps, Sexism in Silicon Valley, and More

And Americans Scraping by in an Increasingly Brutal Labor Market

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September 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Concentration Camps, Sexism
September 15, 2017

REVIEW: A Stanford Professor's Guide to Handling Workplace 'Assholes'

September 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Stanford Professor's Guide to Handling Workplace 'Assholes'

You Need a Plan, He Says, for Dealing with Toxic Colleagues

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September 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Bullying, Workplaces, Assholes, E, Employment
September 13, 2017

REVIEW: They Saw the World Clearly: Churchill, Orwell, and the Fight Against Fascism

September 13, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: They Saw the World Clearly: Churchill, Orwell, and the Fight Against Fascism

Two Men Who Were Both More Right than Many of their Contemporaries

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Review
Winston Churchill, George Orwell, Fascism, Spanish Civil War
September 11, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Hillary's Campaign Memoir, Ken Burns on Vietnam, and More

September 11, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Hillary's Campaign Memoir, Ken Burns on Vietnam, and More

And a Vanity Fair Writer's Freewheeling Look at Sex in the 1990s

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5 Hot Books
Hillary Clinton, Vietnam
September 07, 2017

REVIEW: Salman Rushdie's 'Golden House' is Tragedy, Odyssey, and Fairy Tale

September 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Salman Rushdie's 'Golden House' is Tragedy, Odyssey, and Fairy Tale

And a Caustic Examination of an Ill-Fated Family.

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September 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Salman Rushdie, Novels, Indian-Americans
September 05, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland, Danielle Allen's Doomed Cousin, and More

September 05, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland, Danielle Allen's Doomed Cousin, and More

And a Beautiful, Heartbreaking Novel Set on Mississippi's Gulf Coast

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5 Hot Books
Mississippi Fiction, New York City, Sexual Assaults on Campus
September 01, 2017

REVIEW: Victor LaValle's 'The Changling' is a Magical Novel of Family Woes

September 01, 2017/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Victor LaValle's 'The Changling' is a Magical Novel of Family Woes

LaValle Knows What We Fear and Why it Sends Us Over the Edge

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Victor LaValle, The Changling, Fiction
August 30, 2017

Q&A: Marcia Clark on Her New Thriller, with a Defense-Lawyer Heroine

August 30, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Marcia Clark on Her New Thriller, with a Defense-Lawyer Heroine

The Onetime O.J. Simpson Prosecutor Looks at a Trial From the Other Side

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Q & A
Marica Clark, Thrillers, Defense Attorneys
August 28, 2017

5 HOT BOOKS: Sex, Race, and Music, a Marine's War Memoir, and More

August 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Sex, Race, and Music, a Marine's War Memoir, and More

And an M.I.T. Professor's Cautionary Words about Artificial Intelligence

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5 Hot Books
Music, Marines, Artificial Intelligence
August 25, 2017

Q&A: Maddy Blais Talks Martha's Vineyard, Writing, and Noticing Happiness

August 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Maddy Blais Talks Martha's Vineyard, Writing, and Noticing Happiness

And Her Acclaimed Memoir About Giving Up a Family Home She Loved

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August 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Martha's Vineyard, Memoirs, Family
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