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How did “one person, one vote” become the rule for statehouses across the country?
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
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The secret history of invisible ink.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
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Trevor Winkfield is a connoisseur of the original, spare and strange.
Aug 12, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
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Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls is a haunting and powerful novel.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
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How the literary critic Paul de Man turned evasiveness into authority.
Apr 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics
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The short stories in The UnAmericans are studies of effusive remoteness and meandering revolution.
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
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Dave Eggers’s The Circle; Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
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The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, The Book of Life, The Girl from Monday and Meanwhile
Mar 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
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Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
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Emily Brady’s Humboldt explains why the legalization of pot could cause the biggest economic bust in California’s history.
Oct 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Kate Murphy