Children’s author Marguerite Henry wasn’t just talented and prolific. She was an innovator in the art of promotion.
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The focus on America’s rate of economic expansion took on added urgency once it became the measure of who was winning the Cold War, writes Edward Glaeser
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Here’s what we’re reading this week: The Challenger disaster, Claire Messud’s family epic, Mount Everest obsessives and more.
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New weight-loss drugs appear to produce dramatic results, but there are downsides. Moral dilemmas arise as well.
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The author of “The Emperor’s Children” tracks the aftermath of Algeria’s conflicts in the story of a family shadowed by the past.
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Friendship guided Warren Buffett’s decision to give so much money to Bill Gates’s foundation. So did a skepticism toward inherited wealth, writes Roger Lowenstein
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The idea of a “stream of consciousness” isn’t accurate. We’re often oblivious to time’s passing and seem to collect experiences as snapshots, writes Matthew Hutson
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We’ve never been so flooded with information. Sorting it out usefully is the challenge, writes Michael Luca
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Here’s what we’re reading this week: Missions over Iwo Jima, the long legacy of Freud’s ideas, where wedding vows came from and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The solemn wedding rite suggests that we find our most flourishing selves in the place where our freedoms are expressed in mutual devotion, writes Tara Isabella Burton
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Paul Auster became known for his acclaimed 'New York Trilogy,' a postmodern take on detective fiction.
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Here is a selection of April's most noteworthy books, as discussed by The Wall Street Journal’s reviewers.
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The generation of poets who cast into verse the terror of the World War I front created images that resonate today.
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Here’s what we’re reading this week: A case of hypochondria, Miami’s history with the CIA, the tiny homes of America and more.
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To give up can mean to quit a habit, such as smoking, or to lose enthusiasm for living. What connects these notions philosophically?
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Should central banks lend a hand with the management of climate change and aim to keep the welfare state fully financed?
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Five Best Books on Angling: Selected by the author, most recently, of “The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life.”
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Almost two years after a stabbing that nearly ended his life, Salman Rushdie tells his story in “Knife,” a book closely guarded up to its publication date.
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In an excerpt from her new memoir, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers President Lyndon Johnson’s shocking 1968 announcement and how it transformed American politics.
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To survive the hard times that are fast approaching. investors should focus on hard assets, writes Daniel Rasmussen
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