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Owen Freeman Female Spies and Their Secrets
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
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Daan Brand / Bransch Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk.
How the “food revolution” turned us into snackers, guaranteeing the demise of healthy home cooking
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Robert Youngson / Sony Pictures Classics In Shakespeare’s Life Story, Not All Is True. In Fact, Much Is Invented.
A new film by Kenneth Branagh is a textbook case of how portraitists of the bard spin a paucity of fact into fairy tale.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Neon Is the Ultimate Symbol of the 20th Century
The once-ubiquitous form of lighting was novel when it first emerged in the early 1900s, though it has since come to represent decline.
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Jon Savage Deciphering the Mystery of Joy Division
A new book explores how the group turned itself into a portal for some of the most alien and beautiful information ever to be broadcast through the medium of a rock-and-roll band.
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Felipe Dana / AP How Domestic Workers Enable Well-Off Women to Prosper
In her new book, Women’s Work, the journalist Megan Stack grapples with how she’s been able to advance in her career at the expense of other women’s labor.
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Adam Gault / Getty The Art of Navigating a Family Political Discussion, Peacefully
It works best when both sides really try.
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Julien Pacaud Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
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Simon & Schuster Brain Surgery, Up Close
Watching a neurosurgeon at work is awe- and cringe-inducing.
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Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty ... The Curious Power of Giving Book Characters the Same Name
Leo Tolstoy did it. So did Gabriel García Márquez and the Tintin comics. Sometimes, the unusual literary device can amplify a story’s meaning tremendously.
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Arsh Raziuddin The ‘Female Byron’
The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public with hints of dark secrets.
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Doubleday How Conflicts End—And Who Can End Them
A new book about the Troubles in Northern Ireland is a detective story about an unsolved murder. It’s also an examination of the cost of achieving peace.
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Christoph Hetzmannseder / Getty The Invisibility of Older Women
As they age, women experience less public scrutiny—and entertain a wider set of choices about when and how they are seen.
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Kevin Coombs / Reuters The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs
When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent.
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AP Gandhi’s Vision for Equality Involved Raw Food
The activist sought to bring independence to every Indian—including by freeing up the time that might be spent in the kitchen.
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Universal Pictures What the ‘Hollywood Jim Crow’ Looks Like Today
The supposedly color-blind language of economics has allowed the mainstream film industry to hide its racial biases, a new book argues.
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mpi04 / MediaPunch / AP What It’s Like to Go Back to School After a Shooting
Dave Cullen’s new book about the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida, vividly portrays the challenges of starting class again while recovering from trauma.
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Doug McLean What Some of the World’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Have to Say
An ancient saying he learned from his subjects, the Lamalerans, showed the journalist Doug Bock Clark how to tell the story of a tribe with no recorded history.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Dave Cullen’s New Book on the Parkland Shooting Is Surprisingly Illuminating
With unrivaled access to the student survivors cum activists, the journalist brings new perspective to the massacre, one year later.
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Kevin Winter / FOX / ImageDirect How Aerosmith and Run-DMC Begrudgingly Made a Masterpiece
Initially, neither group was excited about collaborating for “Walk This Way.” The rest is history.
