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The Gift of Books
by Matt Sutherland
To a book lover, gift books may be a term too specifically applied to one subset of literature; all books are gifts. So... Read More
The Gift of Books
To a book lover, gift books may be a term too specifically applied to one subset of literature; all books are gifts. These eight books reviewed in our September/October 2017 issue are especially gifty.
A Funny Cancer Memoir is Tragedy Plus Time
Writing a cancer memoir is difficult while you're inside the story, undergoing treatment. What does help, though, is writing down every thought, dark and light, to friends and family. Out of this came, for one author, a humorous cancer memoir.
Want to Get a Child to Read? We Recommend These Books
The saying goes “if you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” These books reviewed in our September/October 2017 issue will help any child learn to love reading.
Company See Company Do
Success Isn't Monkey Business
This diverse collection of business books includes fascinating case studies of failed startup, a thriving financial organization, and more.
Screw Cancer and the Sugar it Rode In On
Here's what I learned when I was diagnosed with cancer. Sugar is cancer's go-to fuel—sugar in the form of grains and rice, potatoes, and other starches, as well as processed sugar, fruit juices, and honey. All that stuff is cancer food.
Book Review
Origins of a Story
Stories have stories, and when these stories are about stories like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein or Lolita or Charlotte’s Web or another classic, beloved novel, those stories take on great meaning. Of Infinite Jest, in an... Read More
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Paperbacks from Hell
As trends in genre fiction go, you’d be hard pressed to find a more indelible example than the paperback horror novels of the 1970s and 1980s. All manner of depravity, from Nazi leprechauns, psychic spawn, ghost trains, and... Read More
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Nothing Left Behind
Burning Man, festival beyond words in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, attracts 70,000 utopians for a weeklong experiment in barter, selfless giving, artistic self-expression, and unchecked revelry. But don’t get the wrong idea. The event... Read More
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Secret Marvels of the World
Lonely Planet wants you to visit the far reaches of weird. Are you prepared for three hundred jars of human brains in Lima’s Museo del Cerebro? How about the sight of ten million hay-colored bats flying over your head as you wander... Read More
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Tasting Georgia
Ancient, enigmatic Georgia, enviably positioned between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, lays claim to one of history’s greatest civilizing feats: the first domestication of wild grapes more than five thousand years ago. This... Read More
Book Review
Eating Eternity
God felt so guilty about creating France as the most beautiful place in the world that he somehow needed to make amends. So he created the French people. Bada bing! But he also sprinkled the population with incomparable French chefs and... Read More
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Bark
Back again to the ongoing attempt to wrap one’s brain around the unwrappable, the unbrainable evil that was the Holocaust. This time in the guise of a tiny book of photos and reflections on Auschwitz-Birkenau. Birken, German for birch,... Read More