Books Archive |
Stitches: A memoir - We can all tell stories of bummer childhoods, but try and top this. David Small grew up in a house of non-verbal strangers. His mother was a woman of few words
Stone Soup - My least favorite book for children is Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, which has sold more than 5 million copies, has been translated into every language but Urdu, and is
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry - Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers, the author of 19 books, a poet for whom an appearance in The New Yorker is not a life
Strength in What Remains: A journey of remembrance and forgiveness - His name --- Deogratia --- means “thanks to God” in Latin. When we first meet him, Deo is 24, a third-year medical student. But there’s no way he can finish
Stuart -
Stuff Happens - Boots or no boots? That is the question. The last time we were on the verge of going to war in the Middle East, 36,000,000 people marched in 3,000 protests
Stuff White People Like - A cup of Fair Trade java is brewing in the kitchen. Your six-year-old is reciting the alphabet --- in French. The Sunday Times lies on the table
Stumbling on Happiness - I was nearing the thrilling conclusion of “Stumbling on Happiness” when I came across a sentence so brilliant, so subtle, so genuinely funny that I had the experience readers crave
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy - "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” - E.B. White Robert H. Frank is the HJ Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - It took David Eagleman seven years to write the 40 mini-stories in “Sum.” And not because he has an Important Day Job, though he does --- he’s a neuroscientist who directs
Summer in the Hamptons: Time for “On Goldman Pond,” my short story about Goldman Sachs buying up Hamptons’ real estate. It could easily be non-fiction. Or science fiction. - The Solstice is upon us --- it's Peak Hamptons. A friend sent me an Instagram link, showing a container of guacamole from the Seafood Shop in Wainscott. It's $27 a
Summer Reading, 2015 - Summer. The catalogs I get from publishers send the message in a way I'll charitably call "timeless." But really, the summer offerings look to me like déjà vu all over
Sunrise Highway - Thirteen-year-old Johnny Pius was killed in 1979 in a way that is remembered on Long Island even now: 6 rocks stuffed down his throat. Homicide police interrogated four neighborhood teenagers;
Super Natural Cooking - The health food store has become as dizzying as the tech shop. Amaranth, spelt, kamut --- quick, can you tell me the difference? Which puts the well-meaning shopper
Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society -
Surrender, Dorothy - Ever want to read a good book, but not a great one? You know what I mean: a pleasant, not-too-demanding novel about the kind of people you might actually
Sutton - It’s not that I couldn’t put down J.R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar. It was more like, after reading it nonstop for a few hours, his memoir became part of me.
T Bone Burnett: “The war of art and ‘surveillance capitalism’ — think of this as a prayer that we become reunited with ourselves.” - I quote this all the time: "Art alone endures. The bust outlasts the throne." I used to hope it's true. Now I pray it is. Politicians who are wholly owned
