Hooves, hunger, heartbreak
A galloping herd of horse-racing books will hit shelves in time for the Run of the Roses in Kentucky, but they'll come up against a strong field of contenders from...
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Hooves, hunger, heartbreak
A galloping herd of horse-racing books will hit shelves in time for the Run of the Roses in Kentucky, but they'll come up against a strong field of contenders from...
Beautifully packaged reads
Abuse, betrayal, addiction and grief form the base for memoirs these days — even beautiful ones like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. But Swim: Why We Love the...
Beautifully packaged reads
Abuse, betrayal, addiction and grief form the base for memoirs these days — even beautiful ones like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. But Swim: Why We Love the...
It’s not about the baseball
To understand the relationship between Herman Melville's 19th century novel and this 21st century blockbuster, perhaps a cliché would be useful: "The Art of Fielding" is as much about baseball...
It’s not about the baseball
To understand the relationship between Herman Melville's 19th century novel and this 21st century blockbuster, perhaps a cliché would be useful: "The Art of Fielding" is as much about baseball...
Exploring themes in Chad Harbach’s debut novel
The perfect book for group discussion is one that's challenging but not impenetrable. It transports you to a different time and place, but is smooth enough to avoid motion sickness....
Exploring themes in Chad Harbach’s debut novel
The perfect book for group discussion is one that's challenging but not impenetrable. It transports you to a different time and place, but is smooth enough to avoid motion sickness....
Beautiful memoirs, dark novels
In The Guardians: An Elegy, Sarah Manguso explores a single incident: the suicide of her dear friend. Drawing on her talent as a poet, Manguso evokes her friend not by...
The other Elizabeth Taylor
After enduring my share of Richard Burton and Michael Jackson jokes and about the "real Elizabeth Taylor," it wasn't until 15 years ago that I finally found my retort: The...