Fearful that he had lost some of his mental acuity after a serious accident mid-way through his literary career, Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, who until that point was known as a poet and Continue reading »
Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
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Sixteen women writers--Dorothy Parker, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Susan Sontag and Anne Sexton among them--discuss the art and craft of writing both fiction and nonfiction in this captivating, Continue reading »
As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure
Published on the eve of the Explorers Club centennial, this collection of stories and articles derives from the club's past publications. It's a wide array, covering every continent and charting Continue reading »
From the late poet Gregory Corso's ""Dream of a Baseball Star"" to pitcher Sadaharu Oh's ""A Zen Way of Baseball,"" New York's honorary commissioner of fireworks, George Plimpton (who has also Continue reading »
In its eighth edition, this fecund forum continues to illuminate the creative mind. Prolific author Oates points out that the present volume signals a departure in that it includes essayist (as well Continue reading »
Writers at Work 09: 2the Paris Review Interviews Ninth Series
The venerable Paris Review series remains insightful and delightful, and these 12 interviews, as novelist Styron suggests in his introduction, offer ``an extraordinary variety and range.'' Wallace Continue reading »
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game
C Thi Nguyen
Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this trenchant philosophical Continue reading »
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
Jochen Hellbeck
Nazi hatred of the Soviet Union played a larger role in precipitating the Holocaust than is generally understood, according to this riveting revisionist study. Historian Continue reading »
In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis
Laura Mauldin
This gut-wrenching account from sociologist Mauldin (Made to Hear) spotlights the hardships endured by couples in the U.S. when one partner becomes disabled or ill and the other Continue reading »
A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future
Robert Wachter
Wachter (The Digital Doctor), chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, offers an evenhanded and insightful exploration of the ways Continue reading »