Adam Cohen
Co-Editor at The National Book Review
N.Y. Times & Time alum. Author: "Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America." "Impressive and necessary" -- N.Y. Times
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2 weeks ago |
thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (Penguin Press, 352 pages)By Paul Markowitz With the election of 2024 still in our rear-view mirror, it is appropriate and timely that we reconsider what we knew and when we knew it about the decline of Joe Biden prior to last year's election.
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3 weeks ago |
thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen
Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun ViolenceJens LudwigUniversity of Chicago Press 394 pp. Gun violence is one of our most intractable problems – and one of the most tragic. Day after day, the news is filled with lives senselessly cut short. Our society has come up with a parade of solutions – tougher sentences for gun crimes, dedicated anti-gang squads, and more – but they have not made a dent in the problem.
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3 weeks ago |
thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen
Claire Hoffman, “Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)My friends all say they’ve heard of Aimee Semple McPherson, although they aren’t sure why. Something to do with religion, they say. Some kind of scandal, they add. Even if memories are vague, they’re sure she’s one of those 20th-century characters likely to show up as a mid-priced Jeopardy question.
REVIEW: Ali Smith's 'Gliff' is a Dystopian Novel that Focuses on the Kids — The National Book Review
1 month ago |
thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen
GliffBy Ali SmithPantheon 281 pp. By Jim SwearingenIt might seem somewhat rash to argue that the field of futuristic-dystopian novels has been picked clean. Writers will of course always craft new riffs on timeless stories. But technical advances in monitoring and surveillance that have occurred in recent years have surpassed virtually every tyrannical gadget in the fictional canon.
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2 months ago |
thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen
Alice Austen’s staggering debut novel 33 Place Brugmann, set during the Nazi invasion of Belgium, alternates narrators between residents of the titular Brussels apartment as each one; Jewish and gentile, European and American, children and adults; reckon with what their future under occupation may look like and what they must do to survive it.
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