A tense turning point of the Cold War is captured effectively with Frederick Kempe's page-turning book, a solid work of popular history that should be one of the breakout titles of the year.
If you have been married for seven years and you have kids, you are a bitch, and it's not your fault.
Suddenly Brooks is like the James Franco of comedy. If his book sucked, no problem. But it's hard not to like Twenty Thirty: The Real Story of What Happened to America.
I'm still excited and hopeful, but early statements from some of the people involved with Bookish have given me pause. As I see it, there are ways to do this right--and a bunch of ways to do it wrong.
The White House poetry reading is on May 11. But PoetryLeaks got a hold of the goings-on before the big day!
In the end, the act of writing a book will not change. Yet as the publishing world changes, as do the ways in which readers digest books, many of the most meaningful moments in an author's career will be lost or different in a way to make them unrecognizable.
If conservatives don't like labor unions, they are entitled to their opinions. But when they attack unions by arguing that they actually hurt working people, they don't have the facts on their side. They are crying wolf.
Too many Western writers try to portray themselves as selfless, Mother Theresa-like figures who venture to an exotic and dangerous country to single-handedly save the natives.
If you think your mother is tough, now's the time to read Mommy Dressing. Louis Gould's mother was a famous fashion designer. "Don't perspire in this dress," she warned. "I never perspire. Why must you?"
Gustave Flaubert wrestles with the ravages of old age, religion, the joy and heartbreak of love, children, and more. Though each of these stories is just some 40 pages long, they loom larger in the imagination.
My mother and father arrived in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in January 1956, on a banana boat -- with two suitcases and a green bicycle. She was a keen cyclist and thought it would be a good idea to bring her Raleigh bike all the way from Southampton.
What makes Plastic: A Toxic Love Story such a compelling read, is her honest assessment of plastic's finer attributes, which largely get ignored in the debates over shopping bags and single-use water bottles.
When I was in Uganda, a young man I met asked for a book on Mahatma Gandhi. He didn't ask for money. He didn't ask for food. He didn't ask for a plane ticket to the United States and out of his horrific living conditions. He asked for a book.
Caleb's Crossing is a mesmerizing novel that left me feeling both sad and emboldened.
Rather than profit on them, Ben Franklin let everybody have his inventions for the public good. It is in that spirit that I now give my book away for free.
A new book tells the story of the infamous and exclusive retreat in Porto Ercole through photographs -- from its inception in the '60s through to today.
With war still ongoing in Afghanistan and American fighter planes now flying over the Libyan desert, let's make Julia Ward Howe and the pacifist origins of Mother's Day a part of our holiday celebration.
MonkeyReader.com, launched just this past Thanksgiving, is a new venture designed to fill an underserved niche market for children's literature. It helps parents get their kids to read, and tells them what their children should be reading.
When I first learned that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot in the left temple, I felt a fierce pang for her, because I knew only too well what damage to that part of the brain can usher in-- a suite of disabilities, affecting everything from language to locomotion.
Jennifer Belle, 2011.05.11
Patrick D. Shaffer, 2011.05.11
