Books Archive

You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life - Sometimes you think, "This is as bad as it's going to get," and then it gets worse. I don't need to list the week's events; you read the news, you

You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples - This reader review tells you all you need to know: “I quit marriage therapy after reading this book.” When “You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time:

You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness - I am not a dog person. Or a cat person. Or, for that matter, a fish, hamster or snake person. It’s not that I don’t like pets --- though I

You Know When The Men Are Gone - Six American soldiers have died this year in Iraq, 30 in Afghanistan. They might as well have died on Saturn. We hear very little these days about these two unwinnable, ruinously costly

You’ve been to the Temple of Dendur at the Met. Did you know it’s in the Sackler Wing — and how the Sacklers made their fortune? Let me introduce you to the patriarch. - 2020 was a record year for opioid deaths: More than 81,230 people died from a drug overdose between June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2020. That’s two of three deaths

Young Man With a Horn - "What I'm going to do now is to write the story of Rick Martin's life, now that it's over, now that Rick is washed up and gone, as they say,

Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart — Until You’re 80 and Beyond - Back in the day when there was life in offices and at social occasions, you may remember how it felt when a kid passed you in the hall without greeting

Yvon’s Paris - Genius is knowing when to stop. The French did, early on, and now they have a city with extravagantly beautiful buildings topped with a sky as open as Kansas. Customs

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - This book was published in 1974. The author died in 2017. Does anyone remember his name? Or even, for that matter, the name of his book, which sold millions of

Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker - We now live in East Harlem, a chip shot from the only Costco in Manhattan. There are few grocery stores in this neighborhood, so I often shop there. I find