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Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys - My wife used to be Somebody in the New York fine dining world. As for me, one of the only two jobs that’s required my daily presence was as a
Hedgebrook Cookbook: Celebrating Radical Hospitality - A reader recently complained, “What’s with all these cookbooks? Please get back to real books.” Dude, I’d love to. The problems are: 1) The cookbooks I’ve reviewed this fall are terrific
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between - I asked the 7.5-year-old, “Do you know the meaning of life?” “Sure,” she said, giving me that Oh, Daddy look. “It’s obvious. Nobody knows. And then you die.” Which pretty much nails
Helmut Newton - In 1987, when I was a Contributing Editor at New York magazine, Tina Brown took me to lunch and showed me a mock-up of a Vanity Fair cover: Faye Dunaway,
Hemingway and Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers - Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was to photography what the Impressionists were to painting. Those breakthrough artists grasped that the latest innovation in technology --- pre-mixed paints, packaged in
Her Last Death - What kind of daughter gets the most dreaded of all phone calls --- “Your mother’s been in an accident, she’s probably going to die” --- and doesn’t drop everything to
Here, There and Everywhere - Here's a way of getting the 'real' story that I tend to favor: Ask the help. "No man is a hero to his valet," Boswell said of Samuel
Hidden New York - Every week, it seems, someone writes from the country beyond the Hudson River to announce a visit to New York. “What shall I do?” you ask.
High Adventure - He didn't see a mountain until he was 16, didn't climb one until he was 20. But there were personal mountains to climb in Edmund Hillary's
High Priest - Let’s imagine that you know nothing about Timothy Leary and LSD. You don’t “know” that he got in trouble at Harvard for giving LSD to students, or that he ever said
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs - 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
Hollywood Babylon — It’s Back - Here's the ultimate host or hostess present. Assuming, that is, your host or hostess has no problem with full-frontal nudity and NC-17-rated, reputation-shattering revelations. If that's the case, stay clear. And
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - I keep hearing that The Wire is the greatest series in the history of television. I missed it. And, rather than do remedial viewing, I thought I'd catch up
Honore de Balzac - As has often been the case, Saul Bellow wised me up. “You can't know life or human relations, you don't understand society, if you haven't read Balzac,”
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War - The Hotel Florida, like the mythical Hotel California in the song by The Eagles, is one of those places where “you can check in but you can never leave.” Or
How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living - Anybody feel the need to know one thing more about Georgia O’Keeffe? How about Coco Chanel? And, while we’re at it, let’s throw in Katharine Hepburn. I can’t think of three women who
How German Is It - If everything were different, how different would it be? That's the kind of question that was fun to ponder late at night in college bull sessions. It's a little different when the
How I Became a Famous Novelist - Steve Hely is one of those annoying guys who not only gets into Harvard, he ends up running the Lampoon and then, after graduation, almost immediately becomes a writer for
How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better - One of my favorite scenes in “The Big Sleep” --- the classic film adapted from one of Raymond Chandler's best thrillers --- has Humphrey Bogart coming into a bookstore
