The cost of health care per American in 2007 was $7,600, and U.S. life expectancy has reached a record high of seventy-eight years, the National Coalition on Health Care states. Yet as costs rise, Americans still don’t live as long as... Read More

“Exciting her spectators with her physical beauty and seductive playfulness as well as her great control and acumen, Baccelli danced with fleet, delicate steps in clearly etched patterns through space, her face always expressive and... Read More

“Fall has so much to offer: not just an abundance of beautiful blooms, but a rainbow of foliage colors, flashy fruits and berries, and showy seedheads, too—far more features than spring and summer gardens typically include,” the... Read More

“In the villages we get up early. Old timers used to say, ‘Nos levantamos con las gallinas.’ We get up with the chickens,” the author writes. Residents and ex-residents of northwestern New Mexico will probably recognize, or even... Read More

“What wisteria and alcohol are to Faulkner, and fishing and bullfights to Hemingway, rudeness is to Roth,” writes the author. “It seems to be everywhere in his books—a sport and a pastime, often delivered as a rant. Rudeness in... Read More

Frank and Joe Hardy have been solving mysteries as teenage detectives since 1926. The Hardy Boys books have sold more than fifty million copies, and new stories are being published today. Even the series’ first three books (The Tower... Read More

This generous compendium of crab know-how and dishes will make all crab scuttle furiously for cover. The author opens with a story about his first taste of crab at an adult sunset party. At age ten, “I was like a buzzard, swooping down... Read More

In this debut audio novel, the author captures the nuance and language of adolescence with stunning ease. The story opens with the death of Jonas, Nina’s four-year-old brother, in the family pond. Nina’s mother had asked her to keep... Read More