“Tent Life: Haiti” by Wyatt Gallery
"Tent Life: Haiti"Photographs by Wyatt Gallery, essay by Edwidge DanticatUmbrage Editions, 128 pages, $39.95 "Pito nou led, nou la," goes the Haitian proverb, which means "Better that we are ugly,...
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Power of a ‘Tiger’
"Don't tiger mother me!" my daughter replied the other evening in response to the obligatory nightly homework question. Eye-rolling and laughter ensued, and it became clear that the phrase "tiger...
Winning idea was written on the back of a hall pass
At Rattlesnake Middle School in Missoula, Mont., Baird Harper was the cool sixth-grade special education teaching assistant, but he was also thinking, and listening, like a writer. One idea, scribbled...
“First Family: Abigail and John Adams” by Joseph J. Ellis
"First Family: Abigail and John Adams"By Joseph J. EllisKnopf, 299 pages, $27.95 Before Barack and Michelle, Eleanor and Franklin and certainly before the brand otherwise known as Brangelina, came America's...
Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration
When Isabel Wilkerson thought of writing about the Great Migration, the movement of the 6 million black Americans who left the Jim Crow South for the North and West between...
“Stet: An Editor’s Life” by Diana Athill
"Stet: An Editor's Life"By Diana AthillGrove Press, 256 pages, $13 When people you respect - and like - recommend a book, don't delay, lest you find yourself full of reproach...
“The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time” by David L. Ulin
"The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time"By David L. UlinSasquatch Books, 160 pages, $12.95 At a recent book group meeting, a smart woman asked, "Why...
Why Algren awards matter
Why should a newspaper, committed to the pursuit of facts, holding itself to the highest standards of accuracy and fairness, give prizes for fiction? We grapple with this sort of...
“All is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost” by Lan Samantha Chang
"All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost" By Lan Samantha Chang W.W. Norton & Co., 208 pages, $23.95 Any poetry lover will find this intense little novel so intimate that it...
“All is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost” by Lan Samantha Chang
"All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost" By Lan Samantha Chang W.W. Norton & Co., 208 pages, $23.95 Any poetry lover will find this intense little novel so intimate that it...