Books Archive |
The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - As I write, there have been 200,000 Google entries about Amy Chua --- and her book has only been out for a few weeks! After all that blather, why should
The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happines - I can’t remember how I became Frances Schultz’s online friend, because the process was so effortless it seemed we had always been sassing one another. And I can’t recall why it
The Best DVDs You’ve Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten - The animating idea behind HeadButler.com is that there is too much stuff out there, and most of you what hear about the new stuff is hype, and most of the
The Best Little Boy in the World - Andrew Sullivan sobbed. (Big surprise.) On the street, we could hear cheers. And in our house, when the New York Senate made gay marriage legal in our state, there was
The Best Memoirs (Part 2) - I recently published a grab bag of The Best Memoirs (Part 1). Here is Part 2. It's even longer than Part 1. Fun Home The story, in outline, is about a
The Best Memoirs (Part One) - A few hours after I published an appreciation of Eudora Welty's memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, two readers wrote with the same question: I'm thinking of writing a memoir. Are there
The Best of I.F. Stone - Guest Butler Eric Jason Silverman is a New Yorker, a published poet, and at work on a novel about a spiritual leader living in suburbia. He lives in California with
The Big Goodbye: ‘Chinatown’ and the Last Years of Hollywood - Several readers have asked if there's an American film I value as highly as the films of the Iranian Asghar Farahadi or the Italian Bernardo Bertolucci or....but you get the
The Big Sister’s Guide to the World of Work - The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work Marcelle DiFalco and Jocelyn Greenky
The Blood of My Mother - A family of refugees walks a thousand miles to a new home where they’ve been told they can find land to farm. One of them, Eliza, is a young mixed-race
The Bolter - I don't watch Downton Abbey because I am a dull, imagination-challenged viewer. That is, I know it wasn't all that pleasant if you were Downstairs. And if you were Upstairs...it's
The Book of Dead Philosophers - If only the examined life is worth living, the best job on the planet is to be a philosopher. But it's not just life that the philosopher comes to understand, it's
The Book of General Ignorance - Stupidity. It’s the word of the year, every year now, it seems. Somebody --- I won't type the name --- spent years saying that you really don’t need to know
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" is a British book that has sold millions of books in England, a great many in the United States, and has
The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes - I don’t know why anyone thought the world needed an entire book about brisket, dripping with anecdotes, theories, recipes and memories. Brisket is, after all, a very simple matter. Just use my
The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers - JULY, 2022 UPDATE : In June, the House passed the PACT Act, which would finally give VA coverage to veterans whose illness was caused by toxic exposures suffered in
The Butler 8-Plex: After torrential rain, Butler goes to the movies (all stream on Amazon Prime) - SUPPORTING BUTLER: Since the start of 2023, Amazon seems to have gone on a quiet campaign to rid itself of small sites that, collectively, generate revenue worth noticing — and
The Cat’s Table - Guest Butler Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels and The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. She recently edited the anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers
The Chocolate War - Why, we read them right away, don't we? That is, if we are Good Citizens and Concerned Readers. Well, and also if we're looking for some really good smut. Because of its “language
