One of the nations top pastry chefs and culinary personalities, Gand wants you to embrace brunch as the ideal meal for entertaining guests. “The food, she writes, “is delicious, and I love the way it often straddles the line between... Read More

Unassuming title, common-enough topic, and yet this remarkable project delivers so thoroughly we might momentarily forget Batali, Bastianich, Curti, and other legendary Italian authors. In Thirty Minute Pasta, Guiliano Hazan opens with... Read More

With much the same fervor as skiers equestrians are selective about their terrain. Equitrekking: Travel Adventures on Horseback (Chronicle Books 978-0-8118-6527-2) profiles dozens of first-rate travel destinations from Spain to Ireland... Read More

Iran has for several decades projected a dismal image—repression of political and human rights; crippling censorship in the press, literature, the arts, and self-expression; the ideological distortion of education; and the increasing... Read More

Any exciting and fulfilling tennis match includes a broad mix of awe-inspiring shots thrown at the opponent, as well as a variety of pacing from the start to the final point. "Tennis Confidential II" offers all of these things. Readers... Read More

Of the 10,000 novels published by legitimate American imprints this year (almost one an hour!), few will greatly profit either their author or publishing house. The book trade is historically poorly paid and genteel. A solitary writer,... Read More

In October 1986, a then little-known television company called FBC launched a new late night show starring Joan Rivers, who had once been a guest host for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. A year later, the company produced and aired... Read More

Was Theodora a ruthless Byzantine empress who plotted and schemed her way onto the throne? Or antiquity’s own feminist who merits a place in the annals of history’s extraordinary women? The author brings to life a female legend upon... Read More