REVIEW: A Humane Look at the Deadly Anchorage Earthquake of 1964
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A Good Friday Disaster that Killed more than 100 People in the Newly Established State
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CIA Assassin Milo Weaver Has Returned to Practice His Dark Arts, and it is Good to Have Him Back
Read MoreREVIEW: How Churchill Brilliantly Rallied England to Win World War II
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A Story of Political Leadership that is as Timely as it is Inspiring
Read MoreREVIEW: For Presidents Day, a Fine Book About Lincoln's Life Just Before He Took Office
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A Clear-Eyed Exploration of an Under-Examined Period in the Great Man’s Life
Read MoreREVIEW: Why is the World So Weary and Cynical Today? A Major French Novelist Ponders
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Is Life Worth Living? Is Selfless Love Possible? If You Want Happy Bromides, Look Elsewhere
Read MoreREVIEW: A Memoir of Living Among Men Who Keep Body Parts as Trophies
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Carolyn Forche Looks Back on the Horrors of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Read MoreREVIEW: What Can a Nanny Do When the Kids are Prone to Spontaneously Combust?
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An ‘Electifyingly Bizarre’ Novel About Caring for “Normal Kids Who Just Catch on Fire”
Read MoreREVIEW: 'Olive, Again' Marks the Stunning Return of the Tart, Intractable Olive Kitteridge
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Strout Alternates Among the Dark and the Disquieting, the Ordinary and the Luminous
Read MoreREVIEW: Elizabeth Strout's Beloved Olive Kitteridge is Back, Better than Ever
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Strout Vividly Conveys the Delicate Balance Between the Desire to Leave Home and the Desperate Need to Return
Read MoreREVIEW: Obama's National Security Adviser Recalls a Time When Our Foreign Policy Wasn't Crazy
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Susan Rice’s Memoir Harks Back to a Time of Competence and Idealism — 3 Years ago
Read MoreREVIEW: What are We To Make of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway?
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Some True Greatness, Some Overrated Work, and a Lot of Tragic Self-Destruction
Read MoreREVIEW: Nicholas Lemann on How the New Capitalism is Destroying America
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Radical Libertarianism, He Argues, is Driving Our Soaring Levels of Inequality
Read MoreREVIEW: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Back--and So is Her Evil Twin Sister
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A Highly Satisfying New Installment of the Much Beloved Thriller Series
Read MoreREVIEW: A Timely Look at P. T. Barnum, One of America's Greatest Hucksters
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Barnum is Highly Relevant Today as the Lines Between Politics and Entertainment Appear Permanently Blurred
Read MoreREVIEW: Colson Whitehead's Latest Novel is Timely -- and Destined to be a Classic
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Its Truths About Systemic Harm to African-Americans in the South are Jarring
Read MoreREVIEW: Hemingway's Days of Rum, Women, and Radicalism in Revolutionary Cuba
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To say “Eso es Hemingway’” means that the thing being referred to is magnanimous, great, or fantastic.
Read MoreREVIEW: Aleksander Hemons' Remarkable World of Yearning, Displaced Immigrants
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Hemon’s Narrators Carry the Gloom of the Old World with them to North America.
Read MoreREVIEW: A Very Timely History of Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
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Brenda Wineapple’s New Book is One that Nancy Pelosi Might Want to Have on Her Nightstand
Read MoreREVIEW: The Book Harper Lee Didn't Write: A Wild Southern Gothic Tale of a Murderous Minister
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A Fascinating Look at the ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Author’s Struggle to Tell an Elusive Story
Read MoreREVIEW: A True Story of Murder and Mystery in Northern Ireland, Amid the 'Troubles'
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New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe Weaves a Rich Tale with Few Heroes
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