Review: ‘Sisterland’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld, she has a thing for plain. She loves plain. She writes about plain in an exciting way. She makes plain riveting. This is no small feat. It's akin...
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Review: ‘Sisterland’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld, she has a thing for plain. She loves plain. She writes about plain in an exciting way. She makes plain riveting. This is no small feat. It's akin...
Publishers are wild for Zelda Fitzgerald
Who didn't write about Zelda Fitzgerald? Her husband, the great novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, did. She inspired his greatest heroines. She was his muse. Ernest Hemingway wrote about her. So...
Review: ‘Life After Life’ by Jill McCorkle
An awful lot of people die in Jill McCorkle's uplifting new novel, "Life After Life." The first death — that of 80-year-old Lois Elizabeth Malcolm Flowers — comes as something...
Review: ‘Lean In’ by Sheryl Sandberg
When Sheryl Sandberg was pregnant with her first child, she was a senior executive at Google. She had gained a lot of weight — 70 pounds — and suffered nausea...
‘On Looking’ inspires rumination on the influence of perspective
Several years ago, my daughter, who is now 7, drew a picture of the gym where she was taking gymnastics. My main impression of this gym was that it smelled...
‘On Looking’ inspires rumination on the influence of perspective
Several years ago, my daughter, who is now 7, drew a picture of the gym where she was taking gymnastics. My main impression of this gym was that it smelled...
Jess Walter’s ‘We Live in Water’ is awash in melodrama
In the prologue to his beloved 1945 novel "Cannery Row," author John Steinbeck supplies a colorful description of the people of Cannery Row, a street lined with sardine canneries in...
Vivid impressions of Russian culture in ‘Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia’
Cuban author José Manuel Prieto's playful and fascinating book, "Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia," is, according to Prieto's narrator, an encyclopedia-style guide to a book the narrator is planning...
Legionnaires’ disease: Questions and answers
It's hard to overstate the fear that arrived with reports of people mysteriously falling ill and even dying after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia during the summer of...