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And a History of American Immigration, 1924-1965
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BOOK REVIEW: How Prosecutors are Using Rap Music Against Black Defendants
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Judges and Juries Are Being Prejudiced by Lyrics they Don’t Fully Understand
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And Some More Lighthearted Suggestions for Quarantine Escapism
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And the Story of a Girl Scout Troop Started in a Big City Homeless Shelter
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Since its Surrender, the Confederacy’s Values Have Been Ascendant — through the Republican Party
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And a Timely Book on How Society Should Combat Loneliness
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Only Three Other Writers — William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington — Have Won the Award Twice
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And What’s the Matter with St. Louis?
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And How if Feels to Write a Book that Becomes a Broadway Play
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She Felt “Hit Over the Head, Knocked Cold,” She Says, by the Success of Her Famous Novel
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And a Look at all of the New Women in Congress (Including the Non-‘Squad’ Ones)
Read MoreREVIEW: The Poetry of Jane Kenyon, Who Died Tragically Young 25 Years Ago
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Kenyon has Been Gone Long Enough to Assess her Work Without Dwelling on the Unfulfilled Promise of her Life
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: How Trump is Destroying America, a Life with 7 Dogs, and More
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And Baltimore Wrestling with Freddie Gray’s Death in Police Custody
Read MoreQ and A: Steve De Jarnatt on His Debut Story Collection, 'Grace for Grace'
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‘I Decided to Get off the Hollywood Train Before it got too Bleak and Went Back to School to Learn the Craft of Fiction’
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And a Fiction ‘Mash-Up’ About a Tainted Family with an Eerie Castle
Read MoreREVIEW: A Humane Look at the Deadly Anchorage Earthquake of 1964
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A Good Friday Disaster that Killed more than 100 People in the Newly Established State
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And a Biography of Doris Duke, the Billionaire Heiress and Philanthropist, who had a Complicated Life
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‘Dwellers in the House of the Lord’ Melds Two Stories About Love
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And the Mother of Three Prominent Writers Investigates Her Family’s Holocaust History
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CIA Assassin Milo Weaver Has Returned to Practice His Dark Arts, and it is Good to Have Him Back
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