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The 2019 Tournament of Books Long List

Here are our favorite, Rooster-approved novels from 2018. In the coming weeks, we’ll cull this list down to our final set of competitors for the 2019 Tournament of Books.

by The Tournament of Books Staff

A photo of a group of boys in Wisconsin giving a Nazi salute at their junior prom goes viral. Hateful stories quickly pour out.

↩︎ The Cut 12h

By exaggerating and outright lying about what transpired at the protest outside his home, Tucker Carlson won the media's sympathy.

↩︎ ThinkProgress 13h

Trump has mistaken the end of his life for the end of the world. He can’t imagine, let alone care about, what will be left after he is gone, if only because no one who matters to him will be around for it.

The only thing that motivates Donald Trump is more Donald Trump.

↩︎ The Concourse

13h

"We wrote little notes on her body... Then we realized she wasn’t dead." An oral history of Andy Warhol's Factory.

↩︎ The New York Times 15h

A handful of studies in the 1970s and '90s looked at the ways men and women carry books differently.

↩︎ Futility Closet 16h

“I’m just so happy to live in Massachusetts,” Hemenway told me. “There are several reasons, but this is one of them. It’s just a lot safer.”

“Where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths.” Massachusetts offers a model for states looking to address gun violence.

↩︎ Vox

16h

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 16h

Maybe you didn't know, but the great jazz bassist Charles Mingus once wrote a guide to toilet-training your cat.

↩︎ Mingus Mingus Mingus 17h

7-Eleven has been in a protracted battle with its store owners for years. ICE is the latest tool in the feud.

↩︎ Bloomberg 18h

Terrific comics by Tillie Walden, a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas.

↩︎ Tillie Walden 18h

An illustrated history of Stan Lee's career in comics.

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times 18h

Before and after photos from a block in Malibu that was destroyed by the Woolsey fire.

↩︎ The Desert Sun 18h

Japan's "elaborate service culture" has insulated it from automation. Gimmicky robots abound, but so do staff members.

↩︎ The Economist 20h

A reading of court filings and some snooping suggest that Mueller may have already subpoenaed Donald Trump.

↩︎ Politico Magazine 20h

Under the guise of fighting corruption, China's on the verge of a big leap backward—to becoming just a bigger North Korea.

↩︎ Foreign Policy 20h

A new hotel opens in an old quarry near Shanghai, with several floors that are submerged underwater.

↩︎ My Modern Met 20h

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft have acquired more than 500 companies in the past decade.

↩︎ Quartz 21h

The midterm elections that still haven't been decided, explained.

↩︎ Vox 21h

How do you like your norms broken? Over Twitter or in a torture memo? By a tinpot demagogue stomping on checks and balances he can’t even fathom or a shadowy authoritarian expertly and quietly dismantling checks and balances he knows are sacred?

Maureen Dowd on the “irreparable damage” that Dick Cheney did to planet Earth.

↩︎ The Irish Times

21h