Books
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The Mostest for the Hostess: The Joy of Vintage Guides to Throwing a Party
Be wary of the recipes (all that glaze!), but there’s still delight in getting advice about etiquette, guest lists and…
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How to Tell the Story of a Giant Wildfire
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter…
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Night and Day in 3 New Picture Books
Several years ago my daughters came back from hiking and announced that they’d found the entrance to an undiscovered cave,…
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Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before
A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of…
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Nancy Silverton Finally Discovered the Joy of Sprinkles
Not only is her latest cookbook her first best seller, the veteran chef has come around to whimsical rainbow flair…
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It’s My Privilege: Glorious Memoirs by the Very Rich
A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their…
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For Kate Christensen, Bad Prose Can Never Yield a Great Book
What books are on your night stand? I’m living temporarily in a rented house in Iowa City, teaching at the…
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Jennifer Finney Boylan to Lead PEN America
The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges…
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A Poet of His Time, for Better and Worse
A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style,…
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In ‘Airplane Mode,’ Not All Travelers Head in the Same Direction
Shahnaz Habib’s “irreverent history” takes a lively and sometimes ruthless look at who gets to go where and what gets…