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The Queen’s Gambit - If you saw the dramatization of the Walter Tevis novel on Netflix, you didn’t see “Queen’s Gambit.” The New Yorker: “She doesn’t need chess to survive. She’s a confident girl
The R. Crumb Handbook - Like any self-respecting survivor of the 1960s, I knew all about R. Crumb. He was the San Francisco "underground" artist who created "Mr. Natural" and "Flakey Foont" and a lot of
The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History - The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard
The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand - I’ve never read Jim Harrison. I saw the film of Legends of the Fall, which is universally agreed to be a drop-dead masterpiece. I certainly knew the legend of Harrison:
The Real Food Cookbook: Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks - My 97-year-old mother thinks we spend too much for food. “The prices of organic milk and grass-fed meat --- they're so expensive," she says. "Why do you need them?" And I say,
The Recessionistas - If you feel, as I do, that women are superior beings, it is painful to open a novel categorized as “chick lit.” The authors generally write as badly as James Patterson.
The Richest Man in Town: The Twelve Commandments of Wealth - Have you noticed that almost no one ever seems to ask the rich about the subject they know best? No, on the “Fiddler on the Roof” theory --- “When you're rich,
The Road - I came to Cormac McCarthy so late that the first book of his I tried to read was “No Country for Old Men”. It was so silly I had to
The Rocks - Guest Butler Betsy Kane Ellis, when not reading, is a Life Enrichment Specialist at Jewish Family Service of St. Paul and an artist. She loves nothing more than putting books
The Rules of Inheritance - Last year, when I began to rave about Troubled Water, a friend said he wasn’t likely to watch it. “You have a greater capacity for sadness than I do,” he told
The Runaway Wife - The first thing Elizabeth Birkelund said, as she walked into the restaurant: “I read your book.” “And I’ve read yours,” I said, and we laughed, and cheek-kissed, and just like that,
The Science of Yoga: Risk and Reward (Take 2) - Guest Butler Jeffrey Rubin is a psychotherapist who practices in New York City and Bedford Hills, New York. He is the author of The Art of Flourishing: A New East-West
The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards - Guest Butler Lorraine Kreahling has contributed regularly to the New York Times, including writing about yoga for the science section. She recently completed “The Green Hotel,” a memoir that explores the
The Scientists: A Family Romance - Guest Butler Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost, and The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. She’s the editor of the
The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Guest Butler Tracy Edmonds Herz lives in West Virginia with her husband, three sons, and a circle of friends who share her love of Wonder Woman. With the beauty
The Sense of an Ending - Under 30? Take the day off. Really. The concerns of this book will seem Martian to you. 30-55? This slim book could seem like a preview of coming attractions. But not
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific -
The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale - James Atlas and I were at Harvard at the same time and surely took courses together and sat at the same table in the special library for graduate students and
The Shock Doctrine - How did you feel on 9/12? So stunned you couldn't figure out a next move? Desperate for an explanation, any explanation? Filled with a desire for someone powerful
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything - I never watch “Meet the Press”, but I tuned in to see David Gregory kick off NBC’s coverage of The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything. Instigated by
