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Those We Love Most - After Peter Jennings stepped down in 2005, Bob Woodruff became the co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight. A month later, he went to Iraq to report on the positive news
Three Minutes on Love - You write a book about rock music, you’ve got a problem. The ending. Does the rocker burn out? Kill someone? Die? Those are pretty much the available choices. There are, of course, rockers
Three Women - I wrote a book called Married Sex: A Love Story, and I can report that writing emotionally credible sex is like climbing Everest in sneakers. That novel cured me of
Tim O’Brien: In the Lake of the Woods - At 37, John Wade was Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. At 40, he ran for the U.S. Senate. He was heavily favored to win. At 41, he wasn't just
Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried - 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
Timothy Snyder: Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary - Bev Veals, a three-time cancer survivor in North Carolina, feared she could no longer afford her health care. She reached out to her Senator, Thom Tillis, for help, and when
Tina Brown: “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — the Truth and the Turmoil” - Before I read The Diana Chronicles, I thought I knew enough about the life and death of the “People’s Princess” to be a runner-up on a quiz show. And so,
Tina Brown: The Diana Chronicles - For most writers starting out on a Diana book in 2005 would mean cutting and pasting from other books. But Tina Brown had been editor of the Tatler. She's interviewed
Tina Brown: The Vanity Fair Diaries, 1983-1992 - In September of 1981, I was reporting The Art of Being Alex, a profile of Alexander Liberman. The title was a pun, for Alex had a double life. Weekdays, he
Tinkers - The winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Olive Kitteridge. I haven’t read it. Ditto the 2008 winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. I did read the
Tintin - At some point in the mid-1970s, I decided that the comic book tales of “Tintin” should become a movie, and I launched inquiries into the rights. I never got to
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything - Sometimes what you want most from a book is to be able to sit back in a comfortable chair, smokes and drinks and snacks near at hand, and have someone
To a Mountain in Tibet - Something in me is desperate to travel to Tibet, climb to 18,000 feet and make the death-defying pilgrimage around Kailas. It’s a sweet fantasy. But it’s not my destiny. "To A
To Kill a Mockingbird - I never thought I'd see the day when the lawyer who argued Brown v. Topeka Board of Education before the Supreme Court and went on to be the first African-American
To My Dearest Friends - On the surface, “To My Dearest Friends” is nothing more than a breezy, chatty, 187-pager about three privileged Manhattan women. One is recently dead. One is the 62-year-old
To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki - Direct and enigmatic, profound and embarrassingly simple, originating in China in 520 CE, Zen Buddhism has taken root in American culture in the last several decades. No longer
Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel - I had the pleasure of reading “Tomb of the Unknown Racist” in manuscript, but I really knew nothing about Blanche McCrary Boyd. I hadn’t read any of her other novels;
Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019) - When our daughter was in the ninth grade, her English class read Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” It’s a novel and then some, packed with drama and ideas.
Toot & Puddle - Forty years ago, a young illustrator with the unlikely name of Holly Hobbie created a little girl who looked like rag doll. American Greetings marketed the
Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They’ve Ever Made - Are you a lawyer? Know a law nerd? Love the last 20 minutes of “Law and Order?” This book is a law buff’s dream. Three judges have collected essays by
