All Books
- 'Hallelujah Anyway' celebrates all in life that is worthy of praise
There is much in this book that is trademark Lamott – theological speculation, hippie slang and domestic comedy, C.S. Lewis by way of Janis Joplin by way of Erma Bombeck.
- When New York City stood on the brink
'Fear City' tracks New York's devastating brush with bankruptcy.
- 'The Hello Girls' pays overdue tribute to a group of World War I heroines
With memorable charisma, Elizabeth Cobb tells the story of the American 'girl telephone operators' who helped to win World War I.
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- 'The Hourglass' is an insightful, exquisite deep dive into a marriage
'Hourglass' – Dani Shapiro's memoir about her marriage – yields a rare combination of lyrical writing and startling, sometimes disturbing insights.
- More 'Rebirth' titles arrive, stirring additional mystery for comic book superheroes
Kudos to the folks creating these comics, who are taking 80-year-old characters and making them fresh and exciting.
- 'The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain' takes us there
Historian and archivist Ian Mortimer has magicked us back to a historical period starting approximately 350 years ago.
- How Pablo Neruda helped me appreciate Poetry Month – and much more
One of Neruda’s continuing themes was the way that basic objects, like tables and chairs, soap and socks, a dictionary or a pair of scissors, can seem magical when glanced at a slightly different angle.
- 'A Little Book on Form' asks: What's the right shape for a poem?
Poet Robert Hass explains why form is essential, for both readers and writers of poetry.
- What Gay Talese has to teach us in an age of social media
The iconic magazine piece 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold' has lessons – and surprises – for today's journalists.
- 'The Girl from the Metropol Hotel' is a Soviet tale of loss, lack, resilience
The terrible deprivations of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's Soviet-era childhood were later sublimated into magical fiction. They had to be survived first.