The singer-songwriter — and now, memoirist — on the love songs she finds between covers.
The best novels of 2014 delve into the recent past, the near future, and faraway worlds. Encompassing late-career epics and ambitious debuts, they consider the after-effects of everything from apocalypse to adultery, and reckon with religion and war using dreams, magic, science fiction, and occasionally nothing but the power of prose. Sometimes, in the grand […]
There’s a lot going on right now. It’s pumpkin spice everything season, it’s decorative gourd season, it’s football season, it’s the holiday season, it’s the holiday shopping season, it’s winter-is-coming season. The list of this season’s attributes go on and on, but let’s not forget the most exciting one of all: it’s proposal season. The […]
Dear Literary Lady, My best friend is leaving town. Should I give him a book as going-away present, and if so, how do I choose one? –C.G., New York, NY Dear C.G., Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” I used to think that quote was overblown, that Hemingway’s words were […]
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein, is the highly controversial, much discussed account of the end of one iconic political carrer and the liftoff of another. Bookend the experience by going back to happier times for Richard Nixon with The Greatest Comeback, by Patrick J. Buchanan, […]