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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
Reunion - Claire Keegan’s exceptional novel, Small Things Like These, ends abruptly on page 128. Her other novel, Foster, says all it needs to in 96 pages. And now I come to
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence - I don’t know how I managed it, but I never studied the American Revolution. So when Bill Bodkin, a New York attorney and writer, offered to write about the origins
REWRITING ILLNESS: A VIEW OF MY OWN - Why do people say “full disclosure?” Isn’t “disclosure” sufficient? Here’s mine: I know Elizabeth Benedict slightly. Every Mother’s Day, I recommend her book, “What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women
Richard Rothman: Town of C - Richard Rothman doesn’t do anything in half-measures. For “Redwood Saw,” his first book of photographs, he left New York for Northern California’s ancient old-growth forests. There are splendid hotels and
Right of Thirst - Video Meet Frank Huyler I read the publishers' catalogues and sometimes even their novels, and I have the same reaction over and over: Who are these books for? They surely don't touch
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing! - “We own weird. Accept no substitutes.” So it is written atop the web site for Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. And so it is proved anew in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing
Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl's books appeal to kids for the simplest of reasons. They're great stories --- and the author is firmly on the side of children. "Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy,"
Roald Dahl: The BFG - When “The BFG” was first optioned for a film, it was the early 1990s and Robin Williams was going to be the giant. But the technological challenge of filming a
Roast Chicken and Other Stories -
Robert Caro: Working - I admire Robert Caro. I’m an evangelist for “The Power Broker,” his biography of Robert Moses, who singlehandedly shaped the infrastructure of New York City, brutalizing the powerless along the
Robert Sabuda - When Robert Sabuda was growing up in a small rural town in Michigan, his mother would read him bedtime stories. He loved them and learned early to read,
Rogue Male - They used to be loners. Then they formed cells. And sleeper cells. Now, once again, we fear the unaffiliated terrorist, the lone wolf who looks like us, lives in our
Rogues’ Gallery: de la Renta v. Gross - “To humiliate a good writer,” Norman Mailer said, “is to give him an ax.” Annette de la Renta has just sharpened the blade and offered the weapon to Michael Gross. Or is
Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals that Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Reading an independent, unauthorized history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is like taking a guided tour of a sausage factory --- if you like to enjoy the
Ronald K. Fried on Martin Amis (1949 – 2023): “As a devoted reader of his work, I am in mourning.” - GUEST BUTLER RONALD K. FRIED is a veteran TV producer (Dick Cavett, Tina Brown) and the author of three novels, most recently the excellent Frank Costello: A Novel. He is a
Rooms - The Earldom of Drogheda was created in 1661. Soon there was a home worthy of the title --- Moore Abbey. It was large. It was Gothic.
Rose’s Christmas Cookies - I can tell the holidays are coming, because cookie baking has commenced. Right now we’re in the experimental mode. I’ve just sampled chocolate cookies with chocolate-covered espresso beans, and although
Rosh Hashanah: Is Bruce Springsteen (not a Jew) America’s Rabbi? - In God’s account books, Rosh Hashanah divides Jews into three categories. God immediately inscribes the names of the righteous in the Book of Life — they are sealed “to live.”
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic - The Times asked, "Are Men Obsessed with the Roman Empire?" Its answer: "Yes, Say Men." The piece begins: "The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C. and fell in A.D. 476.
