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June 07, 2024

Q&A: Caroline Leavitt Talks About Her Latest Novel, Days of Wonder

June 07, 2024/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Caroline Leavitt Talks About Her Latest Novel, Days of Wonder

On Researching a Novel, Writing Protagonists, and More

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June 07, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Book Resarch, Writing Protagonists
April 30, 2024

REVIEW: Lydia Millet's Wide-Ranging New Book Explores Plants, Animals, Insects -- and Life

April 30, 2024/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Lydia Millet's Wide-Ranging New Book Explores Plants, Animals, Insects -- and Life

An extended meditation on what it means to write amid our escalating crises of extinction and climate change

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April 30, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Animal Life, Plant Life
April 30, 2024

REVIEW: In this Debut Novel, a Woman Confronts a Phantom Ballerina and God

April 30, 2024/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: In this Debut Novel, a Woman Confronts a Phantom Ballerina and God

A terse, melodious tale of a professor haunted by a person she’s never met and a place she’s never been.

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April 30, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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American Fiction, Ballet
April 17, 2024

HOT 5: Salman Rushdie's Thoughts on His Attempted Murder, Keith Haring, and More

April 17, 2024/ Adam Cohen
HOT 5:  Salman Rushdie's Thoughts on His Attempted Murder, Keith Haring, and More

And a History of Jewish Orphans in New Orleans

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April 17, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Salman Rushdie, Keith Haring
April 16, 2024

Q and A: Emily Raboteau Talks about How to Mother Against the Apocalypse

April 16, 2024/ Adam Cohen
Q and A: Emily Raboteau Talks about How to Mother Against the Apocalypse

She Takes on Racism, the Pandemic, Climate Change, and Mideast Politics

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April 16, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
March 11, 2024

REVIEW: A Novel About an Ambitious Young Miami Man Whose Role Models are Scarface and Ahab

March 11, 2024/ Adam Cohen

Fresh out of High School, an Everyman Seeks to Become a Kingpin

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March 11, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Miami, Florida
March 05, 2024

REVIEW: Low-Wage Retail Workers Finally Get the Vivid Novel They Deserve

March 05, 2024/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Low-Wage Retail Workers Finally Get the Vivid Novel They Deserve

A Novel that is Better-Written, and of Course Funnier, than Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’

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March 05, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
American Fiction, Novels, Workplace Fiction
March 02, 2024

LIST: 10 Books About Women in Politics Everyone Should Read for Women's History Month

March 02, 2024/ Adam Cohen
LIST: 10 Books About Women in Politics Everyone Should Read for Women's History Month

These 10 Books About and by Women Leaders Have Important Lessons for these Challenging Times

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March 02, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Women's History Month, Women Political Leaders
February 13, 2024

LISTS: What Independent Bookstores Are Recommending We Read in 2024

February 13, 2024/ Adam Cohen
LISTS: What Independent Bookstores Are Recommending We Read in 2024

From Utah, to Maine, to Pflugerville, Texas, People Who Love Books Have Some Opinions

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February 13, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
February 07, 2024

REVIEW: Exploring the Connections Between the Holocaust, Music, and Memory

February 07, 2024/ Adam Cohen

A Story of Art, Unspeakable Horrors, and Loss

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February 07, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Holocaust, Music, World War II
January 19, 2024

REVIEW: A Mesmerizing Novella of Being Lost -- in More Ways than One -- in the Woods

January 19, 2024/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Mesmerizing Novella of Being Lost -- in More Ways than One -- in the Woods

Anxieties, Insecurities, and Questions of Life and Death

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January 19, 2024/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Fiction, Novellas
December 17, 2023

REVIEW: Is Trump Killing the Republican Party?

December 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Is Trump Killing the Republican Party?

We Make the Mistake of Continually Thinking Politics Cannot Get any Worse

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December 17, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Review
Trump, Republicans, American Politics
November 21, 2023

Q and A: James Reich on Novel Writing, Literary Influences, and Dating the Devil's Daughter

November 21, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q and A: James Reich on Novel Writing, Literary Influences, and Dating the Devil's Daughter

And Working in Almost Every Part of the Book Industry

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November 21, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
American Fiction, Authors on Writing
November 07, 2023

HOT 5: Amy Chua's New Thriller, the Story of the AR-15 Rifle, and More

November 07, 2023/ Adam Cohen
HOT 5: Amy Chua's New Thriller, the Story of the AR-15 Rifle, and More

And Rich Cohen on the NBA’s Greatest Season

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November 07, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
5 Hot Books
Amy Chua, Guns, NBA Basketball
October 22, 2023

REVIEW: How Online Amateur Detectives Helped Bring Down the January 6 Insurrectionists

October 22, 2023/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: How Online Amateur Detectives Helped Bring Down the January 6 Insurrectionists

The ‘Sedition Hunters’ Helped the FBI Bring Far-Right Anti-Democracy Militants to Justice

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October 22, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
October 14, 2023

LIST: It's Hispanic Heritage Month. Here are Ten Great Books by Latino/a/x Authors from 2023

October 14, 2023/ Adam Cohen
LIST: It's Hispanic Heritage Month. Here are Ten Great Books by Latino/a/x Authors from 2023

From Isabel Allende to a Memoir of a Grueling Migration from El Salvador to the United States

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October 14, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
List
Hispanic Literature, Hispanic Heritage Month
October 08, 2023

Q&A: Mary Gabriel Talks About Madonna's Rebellion and Legacy

October 08, 2023/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Mary Gabriel Talks About Madonna's Rebellion and Legacy

Madonna’s Approach to Her Work, the Author Says, Is Driven by Her “Insatiable Curiosity”

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October 08, 2023/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Madonna, Rock and Roll
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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