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"Stand the Storm" By Breena Clarke Little, Brown and Co., 336 pages, $24.99 This novel -- its title drawn from a traditional African-American spiritual by Breena Clarke, whose debut "River,...

The president may not be taking to the airwaves in an eloquent plea for Americans to support a war effort by planting Victory Gardens, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in...

Understated and compelling, this little book is much like Pete Seeger, dean of the American folk movement, himself. It is an eloquent portrayal of Seeger's faith in music to stir...

Headlines are a collective effort, and usually are the finishing touch on an issue. This week, though, we began with it: Serenity Now. The Magazine's bi-annual travel issues often have...

Olive, a retired 7th-grade math teacher married to a pharmacist, weaves through this episodic, a novel told in stories. She is a forceful, unforgettable character, at once prickly and generous....

We love putting together the Magazine every week. Occasionally, a theme engages the passions of a only a few in our tiny troupe (see the Golf issue, for example) but...

Little Bee By Chris Cleave Simon and Schuster, 271 pages, $24 Remember Chris Cleave's notorious novel, "Incendiary," written in the form of an open letter to Osama bin Laden and...

Admission By Jean Hanff Korelitz Grand Central Publishing, 452 pages, $24.99 "The flight from Newark to Hartford," begins "Admission," "took no more than fifty-eight minutes, but she still managed to...

The days of doing business with a handshake and a round of golf may be over, but there are plenty of people who just love the game -- and even...

The Moonflower Vine By Jetta Carleton Foreword by Jane Smiley Harper Perennial, 318 pages, $14.99 How could such a wonderful novel, on the best-seller list for three months when it...