Barbara Mahany

Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds of Ways to Live to Be 100 by Dr. Maoshing Ni (Chronicle Books, $14.95 paper) Apparently, living to 100 is easier than you thought. And here,...

"Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen" by Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass (Ballantine Books, $23.95) This mother-daughter team...

I spied the tomato-red cover on my editor's desk. I took one look at the title and dashed off a note, pleading to be the one to pluck it. Then...

The woman is the queen of irreverence. And all things hip. And she's brain-stumblingly bold. She writes about "schtupping." Reminds, twice, not to smoke pot or inhale cocaine while pregnant....

In so many ways, it is the tome I would want to carry to the mountaintop, for it shouts all my deepest passions: It is all about sparking the aesthetic...

If only I could find it under the piles, I would remember why I was dead certain I had just discovered the book that was going to save my life....

Until now, you might have been calling yourself a Restless Soul. Or a Revolving-Door Soul. Well, forget all that. From now on, embrace your Renaissance Soul. So says the author...

The latest invasion of Jacqueline Onassis' privacy, a gossipy text parading as style guide, coyly asks, "What Would Jackie Do? An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living" (Gotham Books, $22). She'd...

All right, all right, I admit it: I'm a failure when it comes to saying no, and I need all 197 pages of this primer on the fine art of...

Ladies and gentlemen, brush off your dusty ol' manners and listen in for the latest on that not-yet-lost social grace, the lifting of pen to say thank you for whatever...