Hamilton Cain

4 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Hamilton Cain

In 1951, William F. Buckley Jr., aged 25, published his incendiary “God and Man at Yale,” targeting his alma mater — he’d graduated the previous year, garlanded with academic honors and club memberships — by alleging “liberal” capture of faculty. He named names, lobbed accusations of hypocrisy and lamented the storied Ivy’s drift from white Christian values, launching a radical conservatism that dominated the second half of the 20th century.

4 days ago | startribune.com | Hamilton Cain

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would survive its own design flaws. Yet the Constitution, its blueprint, has proved more resilient than just five pages of parchment, despite inflamed schisms and the brutal Civil War.

5 days ago | latimes.com | Hamilton Cain

Book Review Flashlight By Susan ChoiFarrar, Straus & Giroux: 464 pages, $34If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. While genre fiction steadily advances onto bestseller lists, realism soldiers on, amid cyborgs and dragons and boozy detectives. Innovative novels from Ann Patchett and Claire Lombardo are rooted in ordinary lives, magic tricks kept to a minimum.

5 days ago | aol.com | Hamilton Cain

While genre fiction steadily advances onto bestseller lists, realism soldiers on, amid cyborgs and dragons and boozy detectives. Innovative novels from Ann Patchett and Claire Lombardo are rooted in ordinary lives, magic tricks kept to a minimum. Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Hamilton Cain

While genre fiction steadily advances onto bestseller lists, realism soldiers on, amid cyborgs and dragons and boozy detectives. Innovative novels from Ann Patchett and Claire Lombardo are rooted in ordinary lives, magic tricks kept to a minimum. Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.