I don’t want you to be alone. Then send me someone. This exchange between Paul and his wife, Diana, occurred a few months after their 25th wedding anniversary, following the diagnosis of the fast-moving cancer that would shortly take... Read More

The author notes a curious confluence early on in this generally praiseworthy set of essays, before he abandons altogether the inferences of his provocative subtitle. Arbery cites some damning local press that Nobel Laureate Seamus... Read More

The India infusing this promising first novel is already a phantom, an incense shrine to a secondary source. Its naïve narrator, Leela, knows her homeland only through the lush, imported spices sold in her parents’ Kenya shop. When... Read More

The worst part of any diet is feeling deprived when favorite foods are forbidden. Knowing this, Bauer, a registered dietitian, developed the 90/10 Food Plan to meet the needs of her clients. Bauer recommends that ten percent of daily... Read More

“Man forgets quickly,” says a blurb in the 1941 edition of Het Parool, a Dutch underground newspaper. Our propensity to dismiss the past is in large part why Bolle, a historian of religions and professor emeritus at UCLA, has snipped... Read More

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave. Actually, freedom was a result of the Union victory and of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, a piece of legislation that wasn’t ratified until eight months after the end... Read More

The words that fell from Hitler’s mouth in 1933 must have chilled the blood of any non-Aryan remaining in the Weimar Republic. He said, “If there are still those in Germany today who say: we will not submit, then I respond: you will... Read More

The author gamely yokes together economics, libertarian politics, philosophy of love, and self-help for families—all in one book. She cuts across these disparate genres to explore the intersection of political philosophy and home life,... Read More