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Review: Movie stardom might be your destiny, but it does not solve your problems.
Dan Bevacqua’s debut novel, the darkly comic ‘Molly Bit,’ follows the rise and fall of a Hollywood star.
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Review: Abraham Heschel’s life of anguish and hope
Edward K. Kaplan’s book on Abraham Heschel will help readers feel a portion of the anguish Heschel endured in his lifetime. But even in his anguish, Heschel found not just spiritual consolation, but profound hope from his deep faith.
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Emmanuel Macron, France’s precocious politician
Emmanuel Macron not only wants to “reform” France but to “transform” it.
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A love song for Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines wrote a number of classic novels, including “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.”
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Review: Ronan Farrow on Harvey Weinstein and the structures of deceit
At almost every stage of his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow says, he encountered roadblocks from NBC’s leadership.
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Review: The complicated Catholicism of Joseph Caldwell
The challenges notwithstanding, Joseph Caldwell presents his life as a Catholic as a gift.
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Isabel Allende’s timely new novel unveils the lifelong effects of war
Isabel Allende’s novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.
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Judith Butler defends an aggressive nonviolence in her newest book
Noted philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler discusses nonviolence, grievability and “radical equality” in her book “The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind.”
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Review: A wild war between zoos
J. W. Mohnhaupt’s first book, The Zookeepers’ War, is an earnest plunge into the extraordinary history behind Berlin’s competing zoos during the Cold War.