In Mary Fleming’s evocative novel "Civilisation Française", three women’s lives intersect in 1980s Paris. Lily moves to Paris in 1982 to study at the Sorbonne.... Read More

Alice Carbone Tench’s cookbook "Eating Again" couples delicious flavors with a deep sense of person and place. Tench began to cook as a means of recovering from eating... Read More

Lisa Kohn’s memoir of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s under the influence of the Unification Church—the “Moonies” cult—is at once heartrending and mind-blowing.... Read More

Whit Hill’s memoir is engaging and interesting, but is it not about Madonna? It’s not. That’s okay. Expecting a memoir by Madonna’s pre-fame roommate to not be about... Read More