Non Fiction Archive |
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World - GUEST BUTLER ALI BINAZIR, M.D., M.Phil. is the author of The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible. He holds degrees from Harvard College, UC
Boiling Point - Boiling Point Ross Gelbspan You know the story of the frog and the
Breaking the Slump: How Great Players Survived Their Darkest Moments in Golf — and What You Can Learn from Them - The most fun I had involving golf occurred half a century ago, when I watched John Sebastian start to remove a red dress from his prom date on the putting
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana - If I can’t identify the players, I can’t watch the game. So… no football. If I can read a book in the time it takes to watch a complete game,
Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture - GUEST BUTLER JANE CHAFIN has been an artist, writer and editor. She began her career as a painter and museum registrar in Los Angeles, then moved to New York in
Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right - Bill Bryson is a writer who can do anything. A Walk in the Woods is the sidesplitting adventure of Bryson and his out-of-shape pal Katz as they walk the Appalachian Trail.
Buckminster Fuller - For a genius, he's not very well known. In the 1930s, he invented the Dymaxion Car, a three-wheeled, teardrop-shaped vehicle that carried 11 passengers, got 30 miles per gallon
Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune - In the fall of 1968, I was sick of writing, sick of Cambridge, sick of the war, sick of myself. I wanted clean air and a fresh start. An invitation
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Dwight Garner, the brilliant and trustworthy New York Times book critic, is not known to gush, and yet this is the first paragraph of a recent review: “’Caste’ is an
Charles Reich (1928 – 2019): The Greening of America - Charles Reich died this week. The author of "The Greening of America" got a big obituary in the New York Times, but I can assure you: he may be the
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City - Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City by Jonathan Fineberg and Wolfgang Volz
Columbine - Dave Cullen has a piece in The New York Times urging us not to draw conclusions too quickly about James Holmes, who killed a dozen people and wounded more than
Conning Harvard: Adam Wheeler, the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League - “Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there,” Woody Allen says in “Annie Hall.” I can think of others who have shamed their Harvard affiliation: Larry Summers when
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights - On the Letters page of a magazine I was idly reading were some angry --- make that outraged --- blasts from readers. Accompanying those letters was an explanation --- it's
Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team - When I worked at America Online, Memorial Day was about a brief nod to the war dead and a loud hello to grilling season. We’d built a giant special
Deep Economy - The Omnivore’s Dilemma may have been the most disturbing and challenging book published in 2006. In 2007, that book may be "Deep Economy." Disturbing? It’s like the doctor
Deep Survival - Deep Survival: Who Lives,
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans -
Do I have a hero? Yes. Harry Parker. - You're in a long, narrow boat, with a skin that's just one-sixteenth of an inch thick and oars that extend fifteen feet. It's 5:45 on an October morning in Boston.
Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters: A Practical Guide to Writing Well in the Modern Age - "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,” Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “and some few to be chewed and digested.” Bacon is wonderfully concise. Almost five centuries later,
