Debra Spark’s The Pretty Girl is nearly perfect.
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Giving Local Food the Raspberry
The Locavore’s Dilemma takes aim at the sustainability movement, ignoring the broader problems plaguing our food system.
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Faith in Action
A review of Mark Shriver’s new book about the life of his father, progressive hero Sargent Shriver.
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Where to Draw the Line on Hate Speech?
Jeremy Waldron’s new book tries to uncover the best way to tackle hate speech on the legal and policy front.
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The Mother of All Girls’ Books
The secret subversiveness of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
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How the Gay-Rights Movement Won
Linda Hirshman’s new book tries to uncover how the LGBT movement accomplished so much in such a short span of time.
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Mad Men’s Shark Week
This season hasn’t lived up to our reviewer’s high expectations.
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The West Coast of Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Science Fiction of Hope
If any political ideal has taken a drubbing over the past hundred years, it’s surely the left’s vision of utopia. How far we’ve fallen from those lofty 19th-century dreams—the classless society, the withering away of the state, the happy news from Nowhere. Merely to mention such hopes nowadays is to call up ghastly images of […]
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Mr. Caro’s Opus
Some observations on the fourth installment of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Too Big to Imagine
Steve Coll’s Private Empire tells you every last thing about ExxonMobil—except what to do about it.
