Today, this author is the award-winning Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and the writer of numerous books, among them Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories and Nerves of the Heart. In the fall of... Read More

Like all well-crafted historical mysteries, this novel is a double delight. Not only does it tantalize with a deliciously circuitous unraveling of the crime, it also totally immerses the reader in another and fascinating world. The... Read More

Meet an assortment of fascinating mothers—whose feats include giving birth outdoors, chewing off the umbilical cord with their teeth, and providing their own bodily fluids as sustenance for their young—in this guide to the birth and... Read More

When her class creates a funny new version of “Red Riding Hood” for their class play, Meena gets the part of a tree. A “perfectly clumsy” girl who finds it “hard keeping her arms and legs from moving around,” she fears she... Read More

For half a century, National Review has been the journal of choice for conservatives to learn about the politics and culture of the times—“a magazine of ideas, an attempt to change the mind of the American intellectual elite in a... Read More

The vast majority of the hundreds of books about sushi available to readers in English seek to simplify the complexities of this cuisine. This author assumes that his readers are already fairly knowledgeable and are regulars at their... Read More

“It turns out that being young and educated with good health and your whole life in front of you isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” write the authors. “The whole wide world is before us, but we’re feeling overwhelmed by the... Read More

For decades, the weekly New Yorker has been renowned for its “drawings”—the cartoons that reduce complex social and political situations to humorous line-drawing evaluations—as well as for its superlative writing. Some of the... Read More