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Book reviews from the daily and weekend Wall Street Journal.
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Joined December 2011
11 Books We Read This Week: The Everly Brothers’ harmony, finding refuge in Texas, 25 years of great mysteries and more.
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Five Best Books on Explorers: Selected by Mark Synnott, the author of “Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery.”.
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Known for her intelligence and charm, Angelica Schuyler Church moved with ease among the personalities who fought for and founded America, writes Meghan Cox Gurdon.
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The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor and humor, writes Barbara Spindel.
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A “lead-crime hypothesis” posits a connection between industrial pollution and serial murder in America’s Pacific Northwest, writes Nancy Rommelmann.
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Why have so many former foster youth ended up in prison? Was it state intervention or the abuse and neglect that preceded it? writes Naomi Schaefer Riley.
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Massive displays of pyrotechnics have been used for religious purposes and political ends. They delight crowds today much as they did centuries ago, writes Donna Sanders.
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U.S. agents have long been accused of complicity in the murder of two Americans in Chile. A two-decade investigation suggests the claim is false, writes Charles Lane.
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Theodore Roosevelt’s two eldest sons shared their father’s passion for the outdoors and traveled to Asia in search of the giant panda, writes Gerard Helferich.
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12 Books We Read This Week: John Milton’s cosmic epic, the mournful voice of the Band, history on the ocean floor and more.
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Having trouble concentrating on work or finding time for your loved ones? The problem may be in your pocket, writes Steven Poole.
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Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort, writes Melanie Kirkpatrick.
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Ours is not an age obsessed with social etiquette. Yet we still seek to understand the correct forms, even if they seem antiquated, writes Meghan Cox Gurdon.
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Economic nationalists insist that tariffs were central to the economy’s takeoff in the late 19th century. The evidence suggests otherwise, writes Samuel Gregg.
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17 Books We Read This Week: The women of ancient Greece, Walter Lippmann’s America, life inside an architect’s vision and more.
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Building the next big digital thing starts with understanding a customer’s problem. Try not to make it worse, writes Michael Luca.
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14 Books We Read This Week: The trials of the baseball manager, the making of a new kind of Marine, the long reign of teen movies and more.
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The writer of “Get Shorty,” “Out of Sight” and many other hard-boiled tales aimed at literary success from an early age. His deceptively economical style became a hallmark, writes Tom Nolan.
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Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined worlds like these, writes Michael Saler.
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