Larger-than-life writer at large Ernest Hemingway always made it his practice to seek out the world’s centers of attention, whether they were war zones, Parisian literary salons, prerevolutionary Cuba, or idyllic Key West and Idaho. In... Read More

Tethered to their smartphones and overwhelmed by news and work, people are looking for what really matters. Eve Turow-Paul’s terrific "Hungry" probes these and other aspects of modern life, including how people eat, shop, and commune,... Read More

In "The Gamesmaster", Flint Dille shares his experiences writing cartoons, novels, and full-length films for some of the best-known children’s entertainment properties of the 1980s. In the eighties: G.I. Joe and Transformers were... Read More

"Smells" is part scholarly treatise, part fascinating popular history, dashed through with a soupçon of wit. Historian Robert Muchembled’s abundant research led him to scour estate and shop inventories, manuscripts, illustrations, and... Read More

A veritable language factory, New York City may very well deserve its preferred moniker of being the greatest city in the world, at least when it comes to its influence on the way that English is spoken. The telling fact is that New... Read More

"Feasting Wild" is a fascinating record of ecological travesties committed in the name of pleasing humans’ insatiable appetites. There’s an otherworldly sensibility to Gina Rae La Cerva’s accounts of the lands, airs, and seas as... Read More

Hafsa Lodi’s thoughtful Modesty: A Fashion Paradox focuses on fashion’s growing trend toward modesty and how pop culture interprets that trend. Lodi, who wears modest clothing herself, is an American fashion journalist who lives in... Read More

Chef Melissa M. Martin first opened the Mosquito Supper Club in New Orleans as a pop-up in 2014, introducing diners to authentic Cajun food and tales about the cooks, fishers, and farmers who live and work in southern Louisiana. The... Read More