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October 18, 2019

REVIEW: Elizabeth Strout's Beloved Olive Kitteridge is Back, Better than Ever

October 18, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Elizabeth Strout's Beloved Olive Kitteridge is Back, Better than Ever

Strout Vividly Conveys the Delicate Balance Between the Desire to Leave Home and the Desperate Need to Return

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Review
Maine, Novels, Older Female Protagonists
October 16, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Ronan Farrow on Sex Predators, Gail Collins on Older Women, and More

October 16, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Ronan Farrow on Sex Predators, Gail Collins on Older Women, and More

And What Happens When a Black Man Has a Daughter Who is Blond and Blue-Eyed?

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October 16, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Me Too Movement, Older Women, Cities
October 11, 2019

REVIEW: Obama's National Security Adviser Recalls a Time When Our Foreign Policy Wasn't Crazy

October 11, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Obama's National Security Adviser Recalls a Time When Our Foreign Policy Wasn't Crazy

Susan Rice’s Memoir Harks Back to a Time of Competence and Idealism — 3 Years ago

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October 11, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Susan Rice, National Security Advisor, Obama Administration
October 07, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: A Sexual Assault Victim Speaks Out, Biden & Obama, and More

October 07, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: A Sexual Assault Victim Speaks Out, Biden & Obama, and More

And How We Should Be Fighting Disinformation Around the World

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October 07, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Sexual Assault, Disinformation, Joe Biden
October 04, 2019

REVIEW: What are We To Make of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway?

October 04, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: What are We To Make of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway?

Some True Greatness, Some Overrated Work, and a Lot of Tragic Self-Destruction

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October 04, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway
September 30, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: A Timely Book on Whistleblowers, Immigration Nightmares, and More

September 30, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS:  A Timely Book on Whistleblowers, Immigration Nightmares, and More

And a Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, a Very Complicated Genius

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September 30, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Whistelblowers, Frank Lloyd Wright
September 27, 2019

Q&A: Legendary Vietnam War Writer Phil Caputo on His New Novel in Stories

September 27, 2019/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Legendary Vietnam War Writer Phil Caputo on His New Novel in Stories

Hunter’s Moon is, Caputo Says, Largely about Masculine Relationships

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September 27, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Short Stories, Masculinity
September 24, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Rocker Patti Smith's Moving Memoir, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Novel, and More

September 24, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Rocker Patti Smith's Moving Memoir, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Novel, and More

And a Timely Look at the Racial Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction

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September 24, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Patti Smith, Microsoft, The Civil War
September 20, 2019

REVIEW: Nicholas Lemann on How the New Capitalism is Destroying America

September 20, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Nicholas Lemann on How the New Capitalism is Destroying America

Radical Libertarianism, He Argues, is Driving Our Soaring Levels of Inequality

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September 20, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Capitalism, Economics, Adolph Berle
September 17, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Breaking the Harvey Weinstein Story, the Life of Susan Sontag, and More

September 17, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Breaking the Harvey Weinstein Story, the Life of Susan Sontag, and More

And a New Biography Explores the Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

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September 17, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Me Too, Susan Sontag
September 12, 2019

Q&A: Christine Sneed Talks with Chris Fink About Short Stories, Male Rage, and More

September 12, 2019/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Christine Sneed Talks with Chris Fink About Short Stories, Male Rage, and More

And Making New Contributions to the Tradition of Midwestern Literature.

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September 12, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Short Stories, Midwest
September 09, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Trump and Television, America the Transactional Nation, and More

September 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Trump and Television, America the Transactional Nation, and More

And Margaret Atwood Returns to Gilead, with a Follow-Up to the Handmaid’s Tale

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September 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Trump, Television
September 05, 2019

5 Hot Books: Abraham Lincoln as Politician, the Roots of the Opioid Crisis, and More

September 05, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Abraham Lincoln as Politician, the Roots of the Opioid Crisis, and More

And an Anthropologist Looks at America’s Student Debt Crisis

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September 05, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Abraham Lincoln, Fentanyl, Student Debt
August 27, 2019

REVIEW: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Back--and So is Her Evil Twin Sister

August 27, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Back--and So is Her Evil Twin Sister

A Highly Satisfying New Installment of the Much Beloved Thriller Series

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August 27, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Thrillers
August 26, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: How You're Contributing to Global Warming, Medical Ethics, and More

August 26, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: How You're Contributing to Global Warming, Medical Ethics, and More

And What we Can Learn from Modern Germany About Racism and Making Amends

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August 26, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Global Warming, Latin America, Germany
August 23, 2019

Q&A: An Acclaimed Bookseller, on What 1,000 Books You Should Read Before You Die

August 23, 2019/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: An Acclaimed Bookseller, on What 1,000 Books You Should Read Before You Die

“The Right Book at the Right Time Can Expand Our Lives,” He Says

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August 23, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Books, Reading, Bookstores
August 19, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: Piracy and Murder on the High Seas, Renegade Anthropologists, and More

August 19, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Piracy and Murder on the High Seas, Renegade Anthropologists, and More

And a Close Look at One Migrant Family’s Tortuous Journey from Manila to the United States

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August 19, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Oceans, Piracy, Migrants
August 16, 2019

REVIEW: The Next Didion or Sontag? Perhaps. Certainly an Astute Chronicler of Our Time

August 16, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: The Next Didion or Sontag? Perhaps. Certainly an Astute Chronicler of Our Time

Jia Tolentino is a Wise and Witty Observer of Everything from Politics to the Weddings

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August 16, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Cultural Criticism, Memoir, Essays
August 12, 2019

5 HOT BOOKS: How to Be Antiracist, Barely Surviving in New Orleans, and More

August 12, 2019/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: How to Be Antiracist, Barely Surviving in New Orleans, and More

And a Cluster of Villages in France that Give Refugees a Warm Welcome

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August 12, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Racism, New Orleans, France, Refugees
August 09, 2019

REVIEW: A Timely Look at P. T. Barnum, One of America's Greatest Hucksters

August 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Timely Look at P. T. Barnum, One of America's Greatest Hucksters

Barnum is Highly Relevant Today as the Lines Between Politics and Entertainment Appear Permanently Blurred

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August 09, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
B.T. Barnum, CIrcuses, 19th Century America
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