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Birds in Fall - The novel starts inside the plane. Eighty minutes into the flight, just as the jet curves over the Gulf of Maine toward Nova Scotia and the moonlit
Bistro Cooking - Last week I went to a friend's home for dinner, my first dining experience in a private space in 18 months. The pre-dinner chat was delightful; all four of us
Bistro: French Country Recipes for Home Cooks - A bistro is your neighborhood local. It's where you go when the other choice is take-out. It's a home-cooked meal served by mom and pop --- though not, happily, your
Black & White - There's a long tradition of turning kids into money. Shirley Jackson --- you recall her from English class; she wrote “The Lottery” --- wrote several books
Black Beauty - The last book Ludwig Wittgenstein read --- the book he read as he lay dying --- was "Black Beauty." I have always wondered why. Wittgenstein was arguably the greatest philosopher of the
Blame: A Novel - I saw nothing in The Shriver Report about female alcoholism, yet it’s estimated that a third of America’s 18 million alcoholics are women. Six million women. That’s not an easy
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef - For years, I had a ferocious crush on Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, creators of the Canal House cookbook series. I’d never met them --- they live hours away ---
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - It's important to understand what Putin wants with Ukraine and why “victory” is so important to him. To grasp that, you need to appreciate Ukraine’s historical importance. Here's your cheat
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire - Newton's third law --- "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" --- applies everywhere on the planet... except in the United States. Consider 9/11. Osama bin Laden
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World - GUEST BUTLER ALI BINAZIR, M.D., M.Phil. is the author of The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible. He holds degrees from Harvard College, UC
Bob Dylan - Two hundred and twenty reviews into this venture, and not one about Bob Dylan. What does that tell you? It might suggest that the proprietor of HeadButler.com either needs a lot of warm-up
Bob Dylan On A Couch & Fifty Cents A Day - “Eve and Mac McKenzie took me in an’ they were beautiful… I lived with them…and they fed me…and I stayed out all hours an’ came back in and went to
Bob Dylan: Chronicles - Dylan's memoir, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize and received a special award from the Pulitzer board for his “profound impact on popular music and
Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song - GUEST BUTLER CHARLES WARNER is a retired college professor, author, and blogger at MediaCurmudgeon.com. He is the Goldenson Chair Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and taught for
Boiling Point - Boiling Point Ross Gelbspan You know the story of the frog and the
Bonjour Tristesse - "I had a strong desire to write and some free time,” Françoise Sagan recalled. “And in two or three months, working two or three hours a day, I was done.” Her
Books for a Book Club - A book club asked me to help them choose between “The Goldfinch” (771 pages), “All the Light We Cannot See” (551 pages) and “Go Set a Watchman” (a rejected first
Bossypants - Who likes Tina Fey? Pretty much everyone who saw her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations on “Saturday Night Live.&rdquo Pretty much everyone who watched “30 Rock.” The publisher that paid her $5 million for a
Branch Rickey - Major League Baseball is racially integrated now: In 2022, 38% of the players were men of color. Before we tip our caps to a racially diverse sport, consider this: For
