Q and A: Talking with Scott Spencer About Unrequited Love, Writing Structure, and More
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The Author of Endless Love Discusses His New Novel, An Ocean Without a Shore
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5 HOT BOOKS: The Real Melania Trump, How to Fix Our Democracy, and More
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And a Deep Look at Migration — of People, Birds, and Other Movers — and its Impact on the World
Read MoreREVIEW: A Thriller Based on the Real-Life Mystery of a Scientist Who Fell Out a Window
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Germ Warfare, the CIA — and the Death of a Man Who May Have Known Too Much
Read MoreLIST: 10 Important New Books About Racism, Anti-Racism, and Racist Violence
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They Explore Everything from Environmental Racism, to Race and Feminism, to Racism in Psychiatry
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Stacey Abrams on Fighting for a Fair America, an Anti-Nazi Spy, and More
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And an Admiring Biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Read MoreREVIEW: A Beguiling Ethiopian Novel with Women Soldiers at Center Stage
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Set in Haile Selassie-Era Ethiopia, The Shadow King Wrestles with Feminism, Colonialism, War, and Much More
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A Tale of Two African Refugees, the LGBTQ Struggle, and More
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And Brit Bennett’s Los-Angeles Based Novel, which Includes a Black Character Trying to Pass as White
Read MoreQ and A: Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid on When Life Takes a Tragic Turn
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What to Do When the Ground Underfoot is Not Bedrock, and the Sky Above is Not Predicable
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: How Do We Recover from Trump?, John Maynard Keynes, and More
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And a History of American Immigration, 1924-1965
Read MoreBOOK 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
Read MoreNEWS: Bill Gates Has Released His Summer Reading List--Including a Pandemic Book
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And Some More Lighthearted Suggestions for Quarantine Escapism
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: America's Surveillance State, Novelizing Hillary Clinton's Life, and More
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And the Story of a Girl Scout Troop Started in a Big City Homeless Shelter
Read MoreREVIEW: Who Won the Civil War? Two New Books Argue that the South Did
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Since its Surrender, the Confederacy’s Values Have Been Ascendant — through the Republican Party
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A New Scott Turow Thriller, How Not to Crush the Middle Class, and More
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And a Timely Book on How Society Should Combat Loneliness
Read MoreNEWS: Colson Whitehead Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction -- His Second in Four Years
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Only Three Other Writers — William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington — Have Won the Award Twice
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Understanding Henry Kissinger, the Rise of Nancy Pelosi, and More
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And What’s the Matter with St. Louis?
Read MoreQ and A: Martha Ackmann Talks Emily Dickinson, Writing in a Cabin, and More
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And How if Feels to Write a Book that Becomes a Broadway Play
Read MoreAUDIO: It's Harper Lee's Birthday. Listen to a Rare Audio of Her Discussing 'Mockingbird'
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She Felt “Hit Over the Head, Knocked Cold,” She Says, by the Success of Her Famous Novel
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A Big Novel about . . . a Pandemic, a Family Beset by Schizophrenia, and More
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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
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals