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October 01, 2023

REVIEW: Seeing Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of Others

October 01, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Seeing Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of Others

Steve Inskeep Looks at the 16th President from the Varied Perspectives of Those Who Knew Him

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October 01, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Abraham Lincoln, American Presidents
September 26, 2023

REVIEW: Could America Survive the Trump Presidency, Part II?

September 26, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Could America Survive the Trump Presidency, Part II?

Contemplating a Return of What Lincoln Called “the Same Old Serpent”

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September 26, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Democracy, Republicans
September 18, 2023

5 HOT BOOKS: Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, a Pathbreaking Tennis Player, and More

September 18, 2023/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, a Pathbreaking Tennis Player, and More

And a Former Harvard University President Who Believes in Good Trouble

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September 18, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
September 17, 2023

Q & A: Cliff Sloan Talks About His New Book About the Supreme Court During WW II

September 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q & A: Cliff Sloan Talks About His New Book About the Supreme Court During WW II

It Was the Best of Courts and the Worst of Courts — and One Filled with Large Personalities

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September 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Supreme Court, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
August 25, 2023

Q & A: Christine Sneed Talks About Short Stories, Writing About 'Strangeness," and More

August 25, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q & A: Christine Sneed Talks About Short Stories, Writing About 'Strangeness," and More

And What It’s Like to Be Working on Three Novels at Once

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August 25, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
August 20, 2023

REVIEW: The Remarkable Life and Career of Actress Anna May Wong

August 20, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: The Remarkable Life and Career of Actress Anna May Wong

Six decades later we are still trying to understand what Anna May Wong left us

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August 20, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
August 18, 2023

Q&A: An Annual Prize that Shines a Light on Independent, Small Presses

August 18, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: An Annual Prize that Shines a Light on Independent, Small Presses

Small presses are often the ones taking the biggest creative risks to uphold their commitment to producing original and exemplary literary works.

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August 18, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Literary Prizes
August 15, 2023

5 HOT BOOKS: August Wilson, a Pleasurable Book on Aging, and More

August 15, 2023/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: August Wilson, a Pleasurable Book on Aging, and More

And a Gorgeous Prose Poem of a Book About Being Kidnaped

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August 15, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
August Wilson, Aging
August 09, 2023

REVIEW: Two Adventurous Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon in 1938

August 09, 2023/ Adam Cohen

Sevigny’s Book Adds Two University of Michigan Botanists to the Roster of Explorers. 

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August 09, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Grand Canyon, Botany
August 07, 2023

Q&A: John Canaday's Manhattan Project Poems Cover Ground a Certain Movie Leaves Out

August 07, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: John Canaday's Manhattan Project Poems Cover Ground a Certain Movie Leaves Out

A Good Companion Read to ‘Oppenheimer,’ for Those Who Want to Hear More About the Human Toll

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August 07, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
August 04, 2023

REVIEW: The Erotic Noir Novel 'The Rope Artist' is a Surreal Tsunami of Sex, Politics, Religion, and More

August 04, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: The Erotic Noir Novel 'The Rope Artist' is a Surreal Tsunami of Sex, Politics, Religion, and More

Fuminori Nakamura has written an absorbing, mind-bending psychological thriller

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August 04, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Japanese Fiction
July 27, 2023

5 HOT BOOKS: Colson Whitehead's Latest, Hubert Humphrey and Civil Rights, and More

July 27, 2023/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: Colson Whitehead's Latest, Hubert Humphrey and Civil Rights, and More

And a Dynamic Memoir About Divorce

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July 27, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
African-American Literature, Hubert Humphrey, Divorce
July 13, 2023

REVIEW: An Obama Administration Veteran Explains How Government Can Do Better

July 13, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: An Obama Administration Veteran Explains How Government Can Do Better

It’s a Genre of Book We Need More of: Primers on How Government Actually Works

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July 13, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Digital Policy, Federal Government, Government
July 05, 2023

Q&A: Cris Mazza Talks Family, History, the Slipperiness of Memory, and the Hybrid Essay

July 05, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Cris Mazza Talks Family, History, the Slipperiness of Memory, and the Hybrid Essay

A Collection that Combines Photographs, Newspaper Articles, and Personal Essays

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July 05, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Essay Collections, Memory, Family M, Family Memories
June 27, 2023

APPRECIATION: Only Connecting: On the Fiction of Michael X. Wang

June 27, 2023/ Adam Cohen
APPRECIATION: Only Connecting: On the Fiction of Michael X. Wang

My “First-Gen” Students Have Stories to Tell . . .

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June 27, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Appreciation
Short Stories, Asian-American Literature
June 20, 2023

REVIEW: Lorrie Moore's New Novel Centers on a Suspended Teacher in Meltdown

June 20, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Lorrie Moore's New Novel Centers on a Suspended Teacher in Meltdown

Everything that Rises Must Converge in this Slim, Fulfilling Book

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June 20, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Lorrie Moore, American Fiction, New York Novels
June 13, 2023

REVIEW: A Virginia Slaveowner Freed His Slaves. The Rest of the Story is Complicated.

June 13, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Virginia Slaveowner Freed His Slaves. The Rest of the Story is Complicated.

It was an impossibly long road from not being enslaved to achieving full freedom

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June 13, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Slavery, Emancipation
May 31, 2023

5 Hot Books: Toobin on the Oklahoma City Bombing, Women's Survival, and More

May 31, 2023/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Toobin on the Oklahoma City Bombing, Women's Survival, and More

And a Dual Biography of Winnie and Nelson Mandela

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May 31, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Oklahoma City, Winnie and Nelson Mandela
May 22, 2023

Q & A: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Julia Keller on the Virtues of Giving Up

May 22, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q & A: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Julia Keller on the Virtues of Giving Up

Moving Beyond the “Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win!” Mindset

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May 22, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Quitting, Resignation
May 17, 2023

5 HOT BOOKS: An Eye-Opening MLK Biography, Pioneering Women Journalists, and More

May 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: An Eye-Opening MLK Biography, Pioneering Women Journalists, and More

And a Witty Novel About a Character Who Seems a Lot Like Donald Trump

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May 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Martin Luther King, Women Journalists, John Randolph
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