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Oh Say AOC
...’s populist proposal to restructure the US tax code to be more egalitarian was rejected by a Democratic Congress. In grim economic circumstances, Carter then succumbed to pressure to sign a bill that...
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Sigrid Nunez revisits Paula Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters; Claire-Louise Bennett on family heirlooms
... about the novels Bill and Hillary Clinton have written in collaboration with best-selling authors. In the New Yorker’s special digital issue on family, Claire-Louise Bennett
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When the Shirt Hit the Fans
... live by 90,000 people in the stands at the Rose Bowl in Pasedena—including then-President Bill Clinton—and another forty million watching on television. It was instantly famous. Chastain’s life has...
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Quite Contrary
... “Northern Exposure,” he describes Bill Clinton’s face as “a visage of pure incipience: soon-to-be-jowly and exophthalmic, a fraction past really sexy, but warmingly cocky, clear-eyed, with an honorary...
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Andy Serkis to direct film adaptation of Elizabeth McCracken’s 1996 novel “The Giant’s House”; Independent Bookstore Day celebrations
... against the store’s booksellers. On May 18, Triple Canopy will host Richard Beck, Ari M. Brostoff, and Sean McCann to give talks on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s political thriller novels, coauthored...
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Kiese Laymon in conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.; “The Atlantic” union asks for voluntary recognition
... including the young Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Donald Trump’s ghostwriter. Book deals: Berkeley has bought two novels by Nikki Payne; both books (the first will be titled Pride and...
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Gabriel Winant’s chronicle of working-class Pittsburgh
... seeking, Winant writes, “to detach survival from production.” It was a struggle eventually defeated by Bill Clinton’s “welfare reform,” itself enabled by racism. The idea, Winant notes, “that men were...
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Rick Perlstein, Leon Neyfakh, Sam Adler-Bell, and Matthew Sitman on how the Right keeps winning
... reactionary, there’s something very intuitive and deep in that. The irony that I’m working with is that liberals do assume that progress is inevitable when Lyndon Johnson or Bill Clinton or Barack Obama...
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American History XYZ
... updated (which is routine) in September 2018 to remove Hillary Clinton’s name, as well as others, including Barry Goldwater, Bill Gates, and Estée Lauder. After an uproar from the left, the finalized...
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Daniel Menaker, 1941–2020; Patricia Lockwood revisits Vladimir Nabokov’s problems and rewards
... Monday at age seventy-nine. Over the years, he worked with Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Alice Munro, V. S. Pritchett, and the formerly anonymous author of Primary Colors, a roman à clef of Bill...
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Gabrielle Bellot points out what the Harper’s letter gets wrong; New York Times Magazine’s take on The Decameron
...org/the-more-things-change/> Curtis Sittenfeld’s fictionalized version of Hillary Clinton’s life, Rodham, in which the former senator and secretary of state breaks up with Bill Clinton and goes on to...
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Abolitionist Alternatives
... who are deemed criminals since, many point out, almost all of us have broken the law at one time or another. Even President Bill Clinton admitted that he had smoked marijuana at one time, insisting...