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- 'This Old Man' displays the charms of New Yorker writer Roger Angell
Angell moves with agility between humor, pathos, and playful metaphor, often within the same essay.
- 'Paradise of the Pacific': a transporting immersion in Hawai‘i’s history
Susanna Moore details the tenacity with which Hawai‘i’s native peoples held on to their way of life in the face of colonial exploits.
- How the Eiffel Tower outlasted its critics
Author Jill Jonnes on Paris landmark’s evolution into an enduring symbol.
- 'Lafayette in the Somewhat United States' brings the French founding father to life
Sarah Vowell trains her irreverent historical imagination on the revolutionary ally who made the American Revolution a global struggle.
- Does reading self-help books make us more stressed?
Does reading self-help books make a reader more stressed out and depressed – or are stressed, depressed people simply more likely to read self-help books? A study suggests either could be true.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson take prizes at the 2015 National Book Awards
Coates' 'Between the World and Me' and Johnson's 'Fortune Smiles' won the nonfiction and fiction awards, respectively, at this year's National Book Awards. Johnson's work is the second short story collection in two years to win the fiction prize.
- 'The Big Green Tent' wraps history and literature into a very Russian story
With both intimacy and cosmic scope, Russian novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya weaves an engaging tale of a group of cold war-era Soviet friends.
- How well do you know Greek mythology?
Allusions to Greek mythology crop up everywhere from Sigmund Freud's theories to the "Hunger Games" books. Test and refresh your knowledge of this infinitely fertile material with this quiz.
- 'The Spectacle of Skill' reminds us how dazzling critic Robert Hughes could be
Hughes wrote many kinds of things in a career that spanned four decades – history, commentary, criticism, journalism – but his primary goal was always the same: to entertain, especially while he was educating.
- Bestselling books the week of 11/17/15, according to IndieBound* Created by the American Booksellers Association, the IndieBound bestseller list uses data from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country to determine which books are flying fastest off the shelves on any given week. This week, some of the bestselling titles flagged by the stores that report their data to the ABA include "Man V. Nature" by Diane Cook and "The Fall" by Diogo Mainardi. Check out the full IndieBound list below.