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Learning Like a Girl - Learning Like a Girl:
Leave Something on the Table, and Other Surprising Lessons for Success in Business and in Life - For the last year I worked with Frank Bennack on his book, “Leave Something on the Table: and Other Surprising Lessons for Success in Business and in Life,” so I
Leaving Berlin - American media loves horse races, which is a good reason to avoid watching political pundits on cable TV. Book reviewers have resisted this reductionist way of considering writers, but in
LeBron’s Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History - When the President attacked NFL players for "taking a knee" during the National Anthem in protest of racism and police violence against African Americans, basketball superstar Stephen Curry decided not
Lee Bailey - Before there was Martha Stewart, there was Lee Bailey. He started small. A shop. Then a department at Henri Bendel. Then books. Very successful books --- “Lee Bailey’s Country Weekends” won
Leeway Cottage - Too many books, too little time. I've been wading through piles of fiction. It's grim work --- most fiction, or at least the books that come my way, are really
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music, The Definitive Life - Guest Butler Joe DePreta, a New York marketing consultant and writer on cultural trends, is a student of musicology from Sinatra to the Sex Pistols. When I was a kid, my
Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich - The most frequent request in my mail this winter has been for the link to a video. Specifically, for the first 3 minutes of that video, which appears in my
Leonard Cohen: The Favorite Game - In some homes, Leonard Cohen's birthday is like the birthday of a saint, mostly for the music --- click here for an appreciation and a primer. But Cohen didn't set
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel - “Lessons in Chemistry” has been on the Times fiction bestseller list for 38 weeks, at #1 for many of them. It was Barnes & Noble’s 2022 book of the year
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed - Two French policemen, acting on the orders of their Nazi masters, came to the little village of Le Chambon on a February evening in 1943. Their purpose: arrest
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There - Two French policemen, acting on the orders of their Nazi masters, came to the little village of Le Chambon on a February evening in 1943. Their purpose: arrest the minister,
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris launched his career by reading a seriously funny story on NPR about working as a Christmas elf at Macys. Overnight, he became our humorist laureate, serving up personal
Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship - Caroline Knapp was the author of Drinking: A Love Story. I wrote about it because some of you surely have issues with alcohol, and I thought it might be of use.
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience - Shaun Usher was a copywriter in a London ad agency. A very bored copywriter. And not finding inspiration for a stationery client. He went to the library and started reading
Levels of the Game - Arthur Ashe died, at 49, in 1993, of pneumonia related to AIDS, contracted from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. In his hometown, there are many statues of Confederate generals
Life - When I was starting to date someone, I occasionally asked, “Who’s the most important Rolling Stone?” The typical answer, “Mick Jagger, no contest.” Sorry. Charlie Watts was the right answer.
Life in the Balance: A Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia - The résumé of Thomas Graboys -- senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School --- is 24
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally - In the beginning, this book annoyed the hell out of me. Here's the set-up: “In October of 2003, my stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died 37 days later.” Tragic.
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days - "The meal is the essential act of life. It is the habitual ceremony, the long record of marriage, the school for behavior, the prelude to love... The meal
