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A groundbreaking chronicle sheds new light on one of the most dramatic chapters in American history
In his noir satires, novelist and eco-warrior Carl Hiaasen ravages those who dare to desecrate
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Born 200 years ago this month, Ralph Waldo Emerson had some strange ideas about the natural world. Recent research suggests they might even be true
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The famed writer discusses her childhood, her writing and the importance of family
Children's books by celebrities are as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here are our favorites
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Michael Beschloss re-creates the 1945 Potsdam Conference at which Harry Truman found his presidential voice and determined the shape of postwar Europe
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Laura Hillenbrand beat the odds to write the hit horse-racing saga while fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, a disorder starting to reveal its secrets
Thanks to the mega-selling Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, we now know how to cope with charging bulls, plunging elevators and runaway locomotives
Graham Greene's letters to his paramour, Catherine Walston, trace the hazy line between life and fiction
A magazine should have the zest of a good dinner party
An exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art takes a fresh look at one of Spain's most celebrated artists and the women he painted
Our writers explore new worlds in time and space
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Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross
When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance readers
Zane Grey went West, fell in love with the desert and redefined the modern cowboy novel
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