LIST: Here Are Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2019
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There is High-Quality Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Sports Writing — and a Reminder of Some of His Earlier Picks
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Q and A: Kerri Greendige Talks About Black Radicalism, Writing History, and Family
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And the Subject of Her New Book, William Monroe Trotter, Who Said, “Agitate, Agitate, Agitate”
Read MoreLIST: Our Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year
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A Family Home Destroyed in New Orleans, a Eugenics History, and Remembering an Earlier Impeachment
Read MoreLIST: Our 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year
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Tales of Midlife Crisis, Troubles in Kansas, and a Real-Life Abusive Boys’ School
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Emily Dickinson's Birthday. Listen to a Reading of "Success is Counted Sweetest"
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One of Her Greatest Poems, and One of the Very Few Published in Her Lifetime
Read MoreQ&A: Exploring the Strange World of Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and the Rest of Palm Beach
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Les Standiford Talks About His New Book on the Rise and Rise of Florida’s Toniest Enclave
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Who is Melania Trump, Really? the Wisdom of Toni Morrison, and More
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And Why Is Britain Suddenly Lurching Toward Extreme Nationalism?
Read MoreREVIEW: Why is the World So Weary and Cynical Today? A Major French Novelist Ponders
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Is Life Worth Living? Is Selfless Love Possible? If You Want Happy Bromides, Look Elsewhere
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Why We Should Impeach Trump, Memories of Mike Nichols, and More
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And Leading Writers Tell Us Why they Loved Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and All of the Other Peanuts Characters
Read MoreREVIEW: A Memoir of Living Among Men Who Keep Body Parts as Trophies
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Carolyn Forche Looks Back on the Horrors of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Civil War's Final Year, a Jewish Family's Sprawling History, and More
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And a Chilling Look at Putin’s Global Assassinations of Political Opponents
Read MoreQ&A: Joan Silverman Explores Post-Its, Peanut Butter, and the Stuff of Daily Life
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“We all spend a large chunk of our lives in the ordinary and the familiar. Exploring that is endlessly interesting.'“
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Irving Berlin's Glamorous Life, Revenge after Auschwitz, and More
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And a Writer Gets Honest About the Difficulties of Writing about Beckett and de Beauvoir
Read MoreREVIEW: What Can a Nanny Do When the Kids are Prone to Spontaneously Combust?
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An ‘Electifyingly Bizarre’ Novel About Caring for “Normal Kids Who Just Catch on Fire”
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Harriet Tubman as a "Boss Lady," Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speaks, and More
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And a Democratic Senator Looks at 8 Progressive Senators Who Sat at His Desk Before Him
Read MoreREVIEW: 'Olive, Again' Marks the Stunning Return of the Tart, Intractable Olive Kitteridge
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Strout Alternates Among the Dark and the Disquieting, the Ordinary and the Luminous
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Tom Brokow's Timely Memories of Watergate, Astrology, and More
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And Investigating the Shadowy, Alarming World of Right-Wing Political Money
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Sylvia Plath's Birthday. Listen to this Short, Wonderful Interview with Her
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She Discusses Poetry, Mental Hospitals, and Why Her interest in Concentration Camps Was “Uniquely Intense.”
Read MoreREVIEW: Zadie Smith's Short Story Collection is Lit -- in Every Sense of the Word
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Smith’s First Collection Offers Dazzling Prose and Heartbreaking Characters
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A Humorist on Why Elitism is Better than Trumpism, Elaine Stritch, and More
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And a Beguiling New Memoir from Dancer and Choreographer Mark Morris
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