Books Archive |
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Times reports that there’s a show of 70 works by Basquiat at the new gallery of the Brant Foundation, through May 15. 421 East 6th Street. By appointment
Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against the Odds - The New York Times noted that at a recent meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, the 18,500 researchers and other professionals were treated to only a single poster
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout - There are exciting, original books, and then there is “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout” --- a book so astonishingly inventive that the cover is
Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life - At some point in your romantic life, you gave someone --- or, better, someone gave you --- Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet.” Decades later, it no longer embarrasses me
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation - He wrote letters. Many, many letters. When he died, aged 51, in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke had written more than 14,000 letters. They've been collected. There’s the 270 page Letters
Rainy, Cold, Holiday Weekend Edition: brief vacations, great escapes… a click away. - It rained on Friday as the segment of my city that hadn't left on Thursday jammed the highways, and it rained all night and most of Saturday so that as
Ram Dass - "How good it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in harmony.” That was the huge banner hanging on the back wall of the church. My wife and I had come to
Randall Jarrell - If Randall Jarrell is remembered at all, it's for "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," a poem you read in high school: From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And
Raymond Carver: A New Path to the Waterfall - What if you only had a year to live? How would you live it? There’s no easier question. Everyone knows the “right” answer: You live as if there’s no tomorrow. You
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep - It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was
Razor-Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison -
Reading & Writing (Correctly) - Summer over, school open, brain fully engaged. Time to crisp up our writing skills, because no matter what you read about declining standards, there are still some dinosaurs who care
Reading My Father - Fathers who are writers and their daughters --- as a writer with a little girl in the house, I find that a fascinating topic. I should think any man who
Ready Steady Shoot: A Pro’s Guide to Smartphone Video - The smartphone videos that I make are not quite great. You know the culprits: our old friends shaky and speedy. Because I would like to do better than that, I was about
Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods Nina Planck - When we last heard from Nina Planck, she was a leader in the crusade for Real Food. Her precepts are, by now, familiar: Eat foods with a long history in
Real Food: What to Eat and Why - Her father was a college professor in upstate New York. Her mother started a school. But in the 1970s, Nina Planck's parents bought 60 acres in Virginia and, with their
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon - In 2010, Goldman Sachs decided not to fight government accusations that it had misled investors who bought one of its mortgage securities --- it paid a fine of $500 million.
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago - How many rotten novels and memoirs begin like this: Mom had died, just five years after Dad’s death in 1989. Readying our former home for sale, my two brothers and I
Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide - We tend to think any kind of healing that originated in Asia is thousands of years old. We imagine that hermetic monks took it for decades of test
Retrieved - If you are not a dog person --- and I’m so not --- you have to bite your tongue when a dog lover bangs on about an animal’s soulfulness. I
