The year 2013 marks the seventieth anniversary of The Little Prince, whose intrigue and delightfulness are due both to its wonderful story and illustrations, and to the fascinating life of its author.
Tom Nash thinks his espionage past is well behind him -- until a man tries to kill him in his sleep. Suddenly Nash is back in the game as a master player. Mark Mills does a genius job in his latest spy novel set in pre-war Europe.
Julia Child lovingly and expertly changed cooking as we knew it throughout her life and career. Her passion for food was contagious, as was her endearing charm. On her birthday today, celebrate her life through Bob Spitz's new biography, Dearie.
In addition to being award-winning and internationally acclaimed, French novelist David Foenkinos is also a musician, so it's easy to understand the allegro pacing of his latest novel, Delicacy.
The various food movements sound complicated and how we actually arrived at this place in our culture that so esteems food can seem a mystery. But now, Gopnik, best-selling author and veteran writer for The New Yorker, takes an intellectual stab at the basis of how we eat and why we eat what we eat in his latest book
Last Saturday, I conveniently found myself at home opening a bottle of wine and tackling one of my favorite dishes, Coq au Vin, from the Mastering the Art of French Cooking cookbook. Nothing gets me in the mood for French cooking more than spending a couple of hours revisiting France through Julia Child's eyes, so before I rolled up my sleeves, I cracked open my well-worn copy of her memoir, My Life in France.
Cormac McCarthy Cities of the Plain: A Contemporary Cowboy Classic from the Master
An Ominous, Sensual Debut: Jamie Quatro’s I Want to Show You More
Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
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