The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works
David Owen
With wry wit, Owen tells about his Connecticut house and how it works, or doesn't work, lacing his humor with informative vignettes. Continue reading »
Owen (The Walls Around Us) sounds like a reasonable human being but for his obsession with golf: as he puts it, ``Monks feel about God the way I feel about golf.'' But even those who spurn the links Continue reading »
Owen served as co-chairman of the steering committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia in 1992-1995. From a negotiator's vantage point, he describes the search for a just Continue reading »
Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof
David Owen
In 1991, New Yorker staff writer Owen wrote his wonderful The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works. Or just as often, how it doesn't work. Now we find out just why he was Continue reading »
Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System
Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The ingenious debut treatise from legal scholar Ossei-Owusu asserts that the ways in which American lawyers are schooled and trained are a crucial factor in maintaining the Continue reading »
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report
Rosa Campbell
Historian Campbell debuts with a revelatory biography of sex researcher Shere Hite (1942–2020), best known for her 1976 publication, The Hite Report. “The thirtieth bestselling Continue reading »
Former Glamour editor Gavenas (Color Stories) offers a brilliant biography of Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics and “the first woman to chair a company on the New York Continue reading »
Bold new claims about Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer and why he painted are at the core of this exemplary biography from art historian Graham-Dixon (Caravaggio). Drawing from a Continue reading »