The 5 best new thrillers and mysteries to read in August
(Soho Crime; Blackstone; William Morrow)
Shari Lapena and Karin Slaughter are among the authors delivering satisfying suspense.
Leon Litwack, Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of America’s racial divide, dies at 91
The UC-Berkeley professor wrote deeply researched books about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
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A plan to make feminism better: Make it less White
Rafia Zakaria sees a power gap between career feminists and those with lived experience.
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This football coach’s goal: Helping his players survive the streets of New Orleans
For Karr High School’s Brice Brown, building self-worth is more important than winning games.
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In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour
Jason Mott’s novel starts out as a relatively straightforward story. Then reality and fantasy blur.
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Why a healthy democracy should welcome conflict and uncertainty
And how our institutions should foster them, according to Jan-Werner Müller.
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The deep resentments and outsize ego of Osama bin Laden
Peter Bergen explores the forces that shaped the al-Qaeda leader’s views.
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How ‘petrodollars’ rearranged the world
The rise of oil money led to fundamental shifts in U.S. relationships, David Wight argues.
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The Iowa orphans who helped settle the fight over children’s intelligence
Researchers who studied the youngsters in the 1930s made landmark discoveries.
Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of ancient Greece, dies at 89
He was also a contentious defender of traditional education and architect of neoconservative foreign policy.
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‘Two Spies in Caracas’ conjures international intrigue in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
Moisés Na�m draws on his deep knowledge of Venezuela and years of observing Chávez in his debut novel.
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