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His Collaborator, James Lapine, Pulls Back the Curtain
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And Cal Flyn Takes a Global Tour of Disaster Hotspots
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A Remarkable Book with a Fresh Perspective on the Master of the Macabre
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And the Story of a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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“I talked to a Hooters girl to see what it felt like to have patrons ogle you.”
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And a Journey by Graphic Memoir through Loneliness in America
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A Literary Genius Who is Perhaps Best Admired at Arm’s Length
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And a Female Scientist’s Unexpected Friendship with a Fox
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And a Novel from the 1930s that was Prescient in Its Understanding of Where Nazism Was Heading
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And the Tragic Story of an Artistic European Family
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And a Powerful Memoir from a Woman Whose Father Served a Long Prison Sentence for Rape
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Matasha was my first major experience of discovering plot as I wrote.
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And a Deep Dive from Bill Bratton on Modern Policing
Read MoreAppreciation: Marilynne Robinson, Novelist and Essayist, is an American Original
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With a Passion and Clarity Missing from Most Political Journalists, She Strips Away Myths
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And How the Space Race of the 1960s was Driven by Cold War Politics
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In the notoriously fleeting world of poetry publications, the journal’s record of sustained excellence is remarkable
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And the Case of an Anti-Gang Peace Advocate Who Shot a Gang Member
Read MoreREVIEW: Looking Back on America's First Civil Rights Movement
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Today’s Civil Rights Advocacy is Part of a Mighty Stream Flowing from the Earliest Days of the Republic
Read MoreREVIEW: The Story of Three Women Who Co-Conspired for Abolition and Women's Rights
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Harriet Tubman, Frances Miller Seward, and Martha Coffin Wright Worked Together to Change the World
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And Discovering the Wisdom of Trees
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