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  • The Global Economy's 'New Argonauts'
    The world economy has created a new class of global engineers. AnnaLee Saxenian, the dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, has written a new book about this group. Deborah Amos talks to her about The New Argonauts.
  • Daniel Mendelsohn, Examining The 'Beautiful'
    A classical scholar with a voracious appetite for high and low culture alike, he's dauntingly smart — but far too interested in why we love what we love to be a snob. Jacki Lyden talks to Mendelsohn about his new essay collection.
  • Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson's new book for the holidays is <em>Nigella Christmas</em>.
    Nigella Offers Simple Recipes For Holiday Cheer
    Food writer Nigella Lawson knows that the holiday season can be overstuffed with planning and decorating. She offers Renee Montagne two recipes — chocolate chip chili and a Christmas-y rocky road — to help keep things warm and simple.
  • The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt
    During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people across New York City — many of them tenement-dwellers. In Hot Time in the Old Town, historian Ed Kohn describes the disaster — and how a little-known police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt championed the efforts to help New Yorkers survive the heat.
  • Bob Woodward, pictured in 2012, describes a sense of chaos within the Trump administration in his 2018 book, <em>Fear</em>.
    Tell-Alls, Dramatic Warnings And The Obamas Lead Political Books Of 2018
    This year brought memoirs from several former Trump administration officials, investigations by journalists reporting on Trump's White House — and a look back from former first lady Michelle Obama.
  • 'The Last Stone' Documents A 40-Year Quest For Answers In A Cold Case
    Mark Bowden's account of the unsolved 1975 case of two girls who went missing near D.C. is a riveting, serpentine story about the dogged pursuit of the truth, regardless of the outcome or the cost.
  • The Bowery, under the shadow of the elevated train tracks in New York City, bustled at night with colored lights and cane-swirling barkers, in places such as the Lyceum Concert Garden.
    Teddy Roosevelt's 'Doomed' War On New York Vice
    When Teddy Roosevelt became a New York police commissioner in 1895, he vowed to clean up the city's endemic vice and corruption. It didn't exactly work out. New Yorkers liked the idea of standing up to corrupt cops, but they rebelled when Roosevelt tried to enforce a ban on Sunday drinking.
  • <em>Hang Wire</em> is Adam Christopher's fourth novel.
    'Hang Wire' Is A Love Letter To Weird America
    The New Zealand-born author Adam Christopher has a fascination for America — his latest, Hang Wire, is a decade-jumping, character-crisscrossing urban fantasy set in San Francisco. Reviewer Jason Heller says that with Hang Wire, his fourth novel, Christopher has mastered "geek-centric weirdness and galloping, whiz-bang pace."
  • Writing The Wicked Ways Of The 'Worst. Person. Ever.'
    Raymond Gunt is profane, rude, heartless and truly the Worst. Person. Ever. Author Douglas Coupland says he's not exactly sure how the character, with no redeeming qualities, came into his mind.
  • Illustrated Memoir Recalls Marching In Selma At Just 15
    Lynda Blackmon Lowery was still a child when she joined the legendary 1965 march. Now she's written a book for young readers about the experience, called Turning 15 On The Road To Freedom.
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