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Jesmyn Ward and Kevin Young win Anisfield-Wolf awards; Annelise Chen on writing autofiction
... The city of New York has announced another round of its One Book, One New York...
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Coming to Terms
... clearly remains front and center. . . . There remains . . . a tendency among critics like Coates, presidents like Clinton, and even urban historians like myself to propose modest solutions within...
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The Quiet Americans
... policies in the ’70s, and came to fruition in Bill Clinton’s crime and welfare bills in the ’90s--is visible now in the unchecked brutality of the police, the culture-war fearmongering of Donald Trump...
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A Spouse Divided
... Humbert Humbert, who’s all too effective in his indecent endeavors. (Doniger, who refers to Humbert’s sins as “child’s play” in the era after the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the age of ubiquitous...
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The NYT's new social-media policy; Bill Clinton to present literary award
... most marvelously beautiful, one of the most nearly perfect poems any American has written.” The National Book Foundation has announced that Bill Clinton will be one of the presenters
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Chuck Palahniuk working on new novel; The politics of Amazon reviews
... “being replayed in Amazon reviews.” Zakaria notes that it isn’t just high profile books like Hillary Clinton’s What Happened that receive politically-motivated one-star reviews. Mark Bray’s Antifa...
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Why Do They Do It?
... Bill Clinton “rediscovered” their Christianity shortly before running for president. ISIS’s piety is not an act. Instead, the group seeks to provide religious solutions for political problems...
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"A Brief History of Seven Killings" gets TV adaptation; Jenny Zhang on motherly love
... to ensure an authentic portrayal of his words.” Jennifer Palmieri, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, is writing
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Jann Wenner is mad about new biography; Luc Sante on John Ashbery
... Showtime has announced that it will run a TV series based on The President Is Missing, the forthcoming thriller co-authored by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
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Man Booker longlist released; Hillary Clinton's book to be "full memoir"
... Patterson and Bill Clinton are in Hollywood this week to sell the film rights
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Half-Full of It
...’s “opportunity state” looks a lot like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair’s “Third Way,” supplemented by a revival of Keynesian governmental pump-priming and with plenty of multicultural confetti thrown in. Because...
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Tour de Raunch
...-sex novel Vox was one of the gifts Monica Lewinsky gave to Bill Clinton--published House of Holes, in which characters travel by various means, including through a straw and, in one man’s case...
