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Amy Klobuchar on Breaking Up Giant Corporations
ANTITRUSTTaking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital AgeBy Amy Klobuchar Over the last decade, the handful of technology companies that have…
Philip Roth, “Middlemarch” and Other Letters to the Editor
His Life as a Man To the Editor: I have been a reader of the Book Review for more than 50 years, but I have…
They Always Had Paris — So He Went Back There Without Her
PARIS WITHOUT HERA MemoirBy Gregory Curtis Following the death of my wife, Aura, who was fatally injured while bodysurfing in Mexico, I received a signed…
Denis Donoghue, Humanist Literary Critic, Dies at 92
Denis Donoghue, an Irish academic whose wide-ranging literary tastes, erudite analysis of poets like T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats, and fierce aversion to the…
Saying No to Distributing a Controversial Title, a Publisher Attempts a Tightrope Act
When the small, independent publisher Post Hill Press said on Thursday that it would release a book by one of the Louisville police officers who…
New Books on the Brain and What It Can and Can’t Do
USEFUL DELUSIONSThe Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving BrainBy Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler233 pp. Norton. $27.95. Should we always advocate for truth? History tells…
John Naisbitt, Business Guru and Author of ‘Megatrends,’ Dies at 92
John Naisbitt, a struggling business consultant and trend watcher who in 1982 hit it big with “Megatrends,” a book that galvanized a country just emerging…
Blake Bailey on Writing His Life of Philip Roth
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Blake Bailey’s long-awaited biography of Philip Roth has generated renewed conversation about the life and…
Living in a World in Which Nature Has Already Lost
SECOND NATUREScenes From a World Remade By Nathaniel Rich On average, an American man puts 85 man-made chemicals into his body every day, while an…