A new literary memoir is proof that sometimes, you really can love George Eliot too much.
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Stevie Sings for Martin Luther King
How Stevie Wonder and Coretta Scott King worked in perfect harmony to beat Jesse Helms and create a national holiday.
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LBJ and Dallas’s Mink Coat Mob
In an excerpt from their book, Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis recount an ugly November 1960 confrontation between the vice presidential candidate and some the city’s wealthy, conservative citizens.Â
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“Double Down” Was Written for Morning Joe—Not Posterity
The campaign books of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are not designed to be read. They are written as fodder for cable TV news.Â
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Jim Lehrer’s No Good, Very Bad JFK Assassination Novel
All you really need to know about Top Down is that it reads like a YA novel for old people.
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Korean Lit Comes to America
The country frets that it trails China and Japan, which have won literary Nobels.
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When Robots Take Over, What Happens to Us?
We interviewed James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, to see what happens when we’re no longer the most intelligent inhabitants of Earth.
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Bretton Woods Revisited
John Maynard Keynes’s monetary strategy was awkward and utopian. Don’t underestimate what it accomplished.
