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April 09, 2021

REVIEW: A Smart Guide to Everything You Need to Know About Being an Adult

April 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Smart Guide to Everything You Need to Know About Being an Adult

Pro Tip: It All Starts with Focusing on Personal Integrity

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April 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Adulting, Advice Books
April 04, 2021

ESSAY: Ken Burns's Documentary Shines a New Light on Ernest Hemingway

April 04, 2021/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: Ken Burns's Documentary Shines a New Light on Ernest Hemingway

[We] want to offer viewers an honest portrayal of a complex and conflicted writer”

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April 04, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Ernest Hemingway, Ken Burns, American Literature
March 29, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Women's Rights Pioneers, Children Traumatized by Guns, and More

March 29, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Women's Rights Pioneers, Children Traumatized by Guns, and More

And Eleanor Roosevelt’s Little-Known Years as a Greenwich Village Bohemian

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March 29, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Women's Rights, Guns, Eleanor Roosevelt
March 23, 2021

5 Hot Books: The Asian American Experience, a Nazi's Granddaughter Looks Back, and More

March 23, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: The Asian American Experience, a Nazi's Granddaughter Looks Back, and More

And a History of America’s First Civil Rights Movement

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March 23, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Asian Americans, Francis Bacon, Civil Rights Movement
March 20, 2021

Q and A: Novelist Marcia Butler on the Writer's Process, Finding Inspiration, and Moose

March 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen
Q and A: Novelist Marcia Butler on the Writer's Process, Finding Inspiration, and Moose

And How Writing a Novel Changes the Author

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March 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Novel Writing, Fiction
March 15, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: The Magic of New York City, Figuring Out Lady Bird Johnson, and More

March 15, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Magic of New York City, Figuring Out Lady Bird Johnson, and More

And a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of ‘Midnight Cowboy’

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March 15, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Lady Bird Johnson, New York City
March 13, 2021

APPRECIATION: 'The Color of Law' Makes a Compelling Case for Reparations

March 13, 2021/ Adam Cohen
APPRECIATION: 'The Color of Law' Makes a Compelling Case for Reparations

The Pandemic is the Perfect Time to Contemplate Rothstein’s Insights Into Our Tortured Racial History

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March 13, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Appreciation
Civil Rights, Reparations, Race
March 09, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Walter Isaacson on Gene Editing and the Future of Humanity, Illegal Guns, and More

March 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Walter Isaacson on Gene Editing and the Future of Humanity, Illegal Guns, and More

And a Novel about an African Village in the Grip of a Major American Oil Company

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March 09, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Gene Editing, Guns, Africa
March 06, 2021

Q and A: Barbara Mahany on Essay Writing vs. Journalism, Winter, and Interfaith Families

March 06, 2021/ Adam Cohen

And Her Son’s Rules about When She Can Write About Him

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March 06, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Winter, Essay Writing, The Seasons
March 01, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Acclaimed New Novel, American Eugenics, and More

March 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Acclaimed New Novel, American Eugenics, and More

And Annabelle Gurwitch’s Wry Look at Downward Mobility and Other Woes

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March 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Asian-American Literature, Eugenics, Downward Mobility
February 26, 2021

ESSAY: The Chilling History of Modern Gynecology – and What We Owe Black Women.

February 26, 2021/ Adam Cohen
ESSAY: The Chilling History of Modern Gynecology – and What We Owe Black Women.

‘Medical Bondage’ Chronicles how the White “Fathers” of Gynecology Built the Field on Enslaved Black Women

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February 26, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay
Gynecology, Racism in Medicine, Black Women
February 22, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Women War Correspondents, the Cost of Racism, and More

February 22, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Iconic Women War Correspondents, the Cost of Racism, and More

And a Spectacular New Biography of Tom Stoppard

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February 22, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Women Foreign Correspondents, Economics of Racism
February 20, 2021

Q and A: Paul Vidich on Writing Espionage Novels, the CIA, and Why He Likes Strong Women

February 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen
Q and A: Paul Vidich on Writing Espionage Novels, the CIA, and Why He Likes Strong Women

The Conventions of the Espionage Thriller “Give You Space to Explore Human Frailties”

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February 20, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Writing Techniques, Espionage
February 16, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: Henry Louis Gates on the Black Church, Bill Gates on Climate Disaster, and More

February 16, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Henry Louis Gates on the Black Church, Bill Gates on Climate Disaster, and More

And the All-Women Kurdish Militia that Took on ISIS in their Small Town and Won

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February 16, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
The African-American Church, Climate Change
February 14, 2021

Q and A: For Presidents Day, Louis Bayard Talks About Lincoln's Romantic Life, Ambition, and More

February 14, 2021/ Adam Cohen
Q and A: For Presidents Day, Louis Bayard Talks About Lincoln's Romantic Life, Ambition, and More

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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February 14, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
February 08, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: What's it Like to Be a Police Officer?, a Black Man Wrongly Accused, and More

February 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: What's it Like to Be a Police Officer?, a Black Man Wrongly Accused, and More

And Why We Should All Be More Alarmed About Cyberterrorism

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February 08, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Police, NAACP, Cybersecurity
February 01, 2021

LIST: 10 Books by Black Women Everyone Should Read for Black History Month

February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen
LIST: 10 Books by Black Women Everyone Should Read for Black History Month

Books that Interrogate the Legacy of Slavery, Racism, the Diaspora Experience, and the Search for a Promised Land

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February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
List
Black History Month, Black Women, Black Women Authors
February 01, 2021

5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More

February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOK: The Life of Mike Nichols, Race and Mass Incarceration, and More

And Uncovering the Secret History of Four Doomed Ancient Cities

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February 01, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Mike Nichols, Mass Incarceration, Radcliffe Bunting Institute
January 28, 2021

Q&A: Amy Schwartz on Whether Robots Can Be Jewish, and Other Spiritual Quandaries

January 28, 2021/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Amy Schwartz on Whether Robots Can Be Jewish, and Other Spiritual Quandaries

The Answer on Jewish Robots is "It Depends," of Course!

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January 28, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Judaism, Rabbis, Robots
January 25, 2021

5 HOT BOOKS: The Death Penalty, a Confederate Soldier and a Freed Slave Team Up, and More

January 25, 2021/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: The Death Penalty, a Confederate Soldier and a Freed Slave Team Up, and More

And the Socially Constructed Stigma Around Mental Illness

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January 25, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
The Death Penalty, American Slavery, Mental Illness
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