This Week's Hot Reads

This week: a reporter visits the whitest towns in America, how dating can make you a career superstar, a novel about transformation in the Montreal underworld, a gripping Scandinavian thriller, and an elegant look at the diplomatic artistry of Rubens.

Published Oct. 19 2009 8:04PM EDT

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Search for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White Americaby Rich Benjamin

A journalist’s provocative account of white America.

“Whitopia” is the term Rich Benjamin uses to describe the exurban areas that house the white people displaced by the increasing number of immigrants and minorities in cities and suburbs....

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This Week's Hot Reads

This week: a reporter visits the whitest towns in America, how dating can make you a career superstar, a novel about transformation in the Montreal underworld, a gripping Scandinavian thriller, and an elegant look at the diplomatic artistry of Rubens.

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