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The Tenth Muse - Her mother, “well into her nineties”, had an urgent question: "Tell me, Judith, do you really like garlic?" Sadly, Judith Jones did. And she also loved the foods of her
The Thief of Always - "I never get scared by books,” said our daughter, when she was 8, “but this is really scaring me.” From a kid who liked suspense, there's no higher praise. What freaked
The Things They Carried - When I went to Costa Rica, I thought to read books set in a hot, wet climate. Because the Costa Rican rain forest is so much like Vietnam, I took along
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food - I thought Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma was pretty much the last word about the food we eat, why we eat it, its cost to our health and the planet’s
The title is not a brag. It really is “The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need” - Andy Tobias and I were in the same class in college. We were both heavily involved in campus organizations, so we returned to campus a week before the start of
The Tricky Part - Every picture tells a story. Look at the picture on the cover of this book. It tells two stories. One is of an open-faced, twelve-year-old boy with a Paul McCartney haircut holding a kayak
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown - Early in 2007, Charles R. Morris sent an e-mail to Peter Osnos, the founder of Public Affairs books. He wrote: "I think we're heading for the mother of all crashes, it
The Trouble with Boys - Ever since women got the right to vote in 1920, they've been on the march. In less than a century, they've muscled their way into the same jobs
The Unknown Terrorist - Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize --- the most prestigious literary award in England --- for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Richard Flanagan? Don't fault yourself for
The Vanishing Point: A Novel - There is only one kind of novel I like to read and only one kind I like to recommend to you --- novels I can’t put down, novels that, if
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music - My early memories of classical music are of scratchy wool pants and of throwing up before --- and after --- my violin lessons. Then we moved to another
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music - My early memories of classical music are of scratchy wool pants and of throwing up before --- and after --- my violin lessons. Then we moved to another state. My
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End - I read somewhere that it is good to greet each day with an acknowledgment that death awaits you --- and then banish the thought and live your day. Some mornings
The Wall Street Self-defense Manual: A Consumer’s Guide to Intelligent Investing - The Wall Street Self-defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing Henry Blodget
The War of Art - In a book by David Steinberg, a very successful comedian who confused his agent by signing up to direct episodes of "Seinfeld," he writes: Something I hear all the time
The Way of Chuang Tzu - It’s probably the best-known story from the fourth century before Christ: Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he
The Weekend Story: “Dear Life” by Alice Munro - Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in 2013. Massive cheering followed, for Munro's stories are deep, intimate and concise --- they're compressed novels. Although she knows so much about her
The Widow Waltz - I know Sally Koslow slightly, and she knows this site a bit better, so she asked me to read and blurb her new novel. I submitted this: “’The Widow Waltz’ is
The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby and Isabelle Eberhardt - Strong women. It's a big category. Joni Mitchell at the Newport Folk Festival is the first and easiest honoree. The women of Kansas, who ignored deliberately misleading ads to vote,
