What Would Eleanor Do? 'If You Ask Me' Revisits Roosevelt's Advice Columns
For 20 years, Roosevelt answered reader questions on topics monumental, mundane and everywhere in between. A new book presents a selection of her essential advice and practical wisdom.
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'Vietnam' Takes On All Sides With A Critical Gaze
While historian Max Hastings may break no new ground in his tome, it's how he crafts his story with color, detail and pathos that makes it great — and likely to become the standard on the war.
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'Heavy' Brilliantly Renders The Struggle To Become Fully Realized
The book is at once a paean to the Deep South, a condemnation of our fat-averse culture, and a beautiful memoir of being black, bookish, and part of a family that's as challenging as it is grounding.
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Help Desk: I’ll Have What She’s Having: Books for Better Sex and Better Relationships
Nonfiction: The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety
The Book Review: Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season’s Novels on Screen
'Brief Answers To The Big Questions' Is Stephen Hawking's Parting Gift To Humanity
The physicist's posthumous book highlights his belief in the rationality of nature and on our ability to uncover its secrets — and a faith in science's ability to solve humanity's biggest problems.
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'Frederick Douglass' Is An Extended Meditation On The Legend's Self-Invention
David W. Blight's opus manages to be both a celebration of a remarkable life and a sober reminder of the many ways in which our terrible times are shaped by those Douglass lived through.
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Fiction: In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural
Fiction: A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World
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