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‘Paradise of the Damned’ Review: Dreams of El Dorado
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoAround 1530, conquistadors in South America began to hear rumors of El Dorado. Spanish for “the golden one,” the term originally referred to an...
‘The Demon of Unrest’ Review: The Seeds of Civil War
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoErik Larson tells the story of the national crisis that followed Abraham Lincoln’s victory in November 1860.
‘Work, Fight, or Play Ball’ Review: On the Diamond, Out of the Trenches
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoIn 1918, Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Chicago White Sox announced that he had taken a job as a...
Exclusive: Sparks Are Flying Thanks to Sydney and Winter's Reunion in Marie Lu's ‘Icon and Inferno’...
Cosmopolitan· 6 days agoIt's been over a year since we first met Sydney and Winter in Marie Lu's exciting spy novel Stars...
‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ Review: The Court in Your Mind
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoWere there a Shelf of Fame for sports books, “The Inner Game of Tennis” would occupy a prominent...
‘Sailing Alone’: Solo at Sea
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoMariners who set off on their own face ferocious storms, rogue waves, unimaginable loneliness and chronic lack of sleep.
‘Revolusi’ Review: How Indonesia Won Independence
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoRevisiting the Southeast Asian nation’s revolution, a fight for decolonization against the Dutch.
‘The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins’ Review: The Last Jazz Giant
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoAs he hung up his horn in 2014, his “Notebooks” might be his last word; they are as valuable in...
‘Vanishing Act’ Review: The Doolittle Raid’s Side Quest
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoThe Doolittle Raid was the first major strike against the Japanese homeland in World War II....
‘The Afterlife of Data’ Review: The Dilemma of Digital Ghosts
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoSocial media companies expected to eventually delete the inactive accounts of users who died. The...