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Exiles - The photograph on the cover doesn't suggest how short they both were, how small. All you notice is their elegance, her pleated skirt just so, his hands shoved casually in
Exit West: A Novel - "Exit West" is the best serious fiction I read about immigration in the last decade. I wasn't the only one to think this. It made many 10 Best lists. It
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Tycoon - If you don't know the copyright on "The Great Gatsby" expired on January 1, 2021, it's not because that happened in silence. The novel that was a flop in Fitzgerald's
Falling Man - So many politicians have stood on the pile of sacred dead at the World Trade Center that it's difficult --- maybe impossible --- to get back
Family Memoirs: Because not all happy families are alike and not all unhappy families are unique - Angela’s Ashes He certainly can’t be said to have had an enjoyable childhood. His parents were poor. His father drank. In five and a half years, his mother had six children
Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times With Liberation News Service - If Ray Mungo had grown up like the other kids in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he would have become “a laborer in a paper or textile mill, married and the father of
Fancy Nancy - Eloise doesn't translate to the new millennium. The Plaza's gone to hotel heaven; might we interest you in a condo? Anyway, a spoiled child terrorizing well-meaning
Far from the Polar Vortex: Page-turners set in distant places - Books can take you anywhere. So says the old cliche. In brutally cold weather, these novels have taken me far away --- to warmer, sunnier places. Turn on the reading
Farmer’s Son - If I said that “Farmer’s Son” is the most powerful novel I’ve read this year, you might grab it. If I disclosed that the author of “Farmer’s Son” is a close
Fashion Icons 2: Fashion Lives with Fern Mallis - Anna Wintour is the Queen of Fashion? If you’re a civilian, you may believe that. You surely believed Meryl Streep was the Queen of Fashion when she starred in “The
Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis - “Fashion Lives” is big as a MacBook and heavy as a small barbell, but if you like to read about fashion, you’ll find it as light as an airport page-turner.
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul - Along with a gaggle of smart (just ask us!) young men in New York, I worked with Tony Hendra on a number of humor projects two decades ago.
Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved - One of the suggestions Timothy Snyder offers in On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is that armchair activism isn’t enough. “Power wants your body softening in your
Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family - Our daughter, knock wood, is as healthy as a child can be. Some of that is good genes (my wife) and some of it is dumb luck and some of
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman - I first read Sam Wasson's charming, original take on “Breakfast at Tiffany’'s," reviewed below. My favorite movie from the ‘70s is “Chinatown.” I inhaled The Big Goodbye. An oral history
Fifth Business - Do you know of the great Canadian writer Robertson Davies? You'd remember the look. Bearded. With an ascot. Though he died in 1995, he seemed like a character out of
Fifty Shades of Grey - “Fifty Shades of Grey” --- the E L James novel about a virginal 21-year-old college senior and the 27-year-old billionaire who tells her what to eat, what to wear, what
Fifty Shades of Grey - Everybody talks about “Fifty Shades of Grey,” but no one ever talks about the woman at the center of the E L James novel. Her name is Anastasia Steele, and
Fifty Shades of Grey: Two smart women weigh in. Praise from the Therapist (‘It’s good for women’), boos from the Healer (‘This is not the way’) - If you saw C. on the street, she’d get your attention. And not only if you’re male. She may have kids, she may be 40, but she’s a tall, cool
Finnish Nightmares: An Irreverent Guide to Life’s Awkward Moments - In 2000, I married a Finn. (In point of fact, she was from Minnesota, which is almost the same thing.) Most of her family was second-generation Finnish, and if she
