Q and A: For Presidents Day, Louis Bayard Talks About Lincoln's Romantic Life, Ambition, and More
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His good friend warned about marrying Mary Todd, and Lincoln asked, “Is it this girl you object to? Or is it any girl?”
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5 HOT BOOKS: What's it Like to Be a Police Officer?, a Black Man Wrongly Accused, and More
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And Why We Should All Be More Alarmed About Cyberterrorism
Read MoreLIST: 10 Books by Black Women Everyone Should Read for Black History Month
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Books that Interrogate the Legacy of Slavery, Racism, the Diaspora Experience, and the Search for a Promised Land
Read More5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More
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And Uncovering the Secret History of Four Doomed Ancient Cities
Read MoreQ&A: Amy Schwartz on Whether Robots Can Be Jewish, and Other Spiritual Quandaries
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The Answer on Jewish Robots is "It Depends," of Course!
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Death Penalty, a Confederate Soldier and a Freed Slave Team Up, and More
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And the Socially Constructed Stigma Around Mental Illness
Read MoreREVIEW: How the Blackwell Sisters Broke into Medicine -- and Changed It Forever
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Two Women Who Broke the Medical Glass Ceiling in the Mid-1800s
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Hockey Parents, Lincoln and the End of American Slavery, and More
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And an Explorer Who Bravely Battled Frozen Seas, Frigid Temperatures, and Polar Bear Attacks
Read MoreREVIEW: A New Yorker Writer's Well-Timed Biography of a Man Named Biden
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A Life Marked by Extraordinary Tragedies — and Successes
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: How the Senate Fails to Protect Democracy, Saving Martin Luther King, Jr. and More
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And What We Can Learn from the Greats of Russian Literature
Read MoreQ&A: The Edge of Adulthood: Patricia McNair on Her New Story Collection, 'Responsible Adults'
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‘I am drawn to the beauty found in what makes us ache.’
Read MoreESSAY: End-of-Year Lists and the Curse of the Too-Long Book
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I love short books, but . . . very few of them have been showing up on any of the 2020 lists I’ve seen
Read MoreQ and A: Joe Drape on His New Book About a Campaign to Recognize an American Saint
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War Hero Father Emil Kapaun of Kansas Was an Extraordinary ‘Ordinary Man’
Read MoreQ AND A: Talking with Susan Minot About Why She Writes -- and Her New Story Collection
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‘You want to convey what it’s like to be alive, or to articulate how mysteriously disturbing life can be.’
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Making of an American Saint, Key West in the Civil War, and More
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And a Fascinating Look at the Early Days of Animation
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Obsession with White Racial Purity, Escaped Slaves, and More
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And a Biography of Henry Adams, ‘The Last American Aristocrat’
Read MoreAPPRECIATION: A Book that Asks Tough Questions About Race and U.S. Democracy
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In these Troubling Times, Once-Fringe Racism Has Become Mainstream
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Barack Obama, an Ebola Book in the Age of COVID, and More
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And a Charming Novel of a Shtetl that Miraculously Escaped the Holocaust
Read MoreQ & A: Lee Conell Talks About Her New Novel, Set in a Manhattan Co-Op Building
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‘The Party Upstairs’ is Told from the Perspective of the Super’s Daughter
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: How to Reunite America, Solving an Old Murder at Harvard, and More
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And a Survey of Strongmen, From Mussolini to Trump
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