True Love Stories

Love is real.

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The Super Bowl

Game day reading.

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Commanders

American Generals in an era of change

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Year of the Dragon

Readings that explore China in an era of change.

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The Civil Rights Movement

Remembering and celebrating voices raised in protest.

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The Olympians

Reading from Athena to Zeus.

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Predictions

Dreamers of the world to come, and their (not always accurate) visions of tomorrow.

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Winter

Season's readings.

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King Arthur

Journeys back to the Round Table in history, poetry, and fantasy.

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Picturing Nature

See the world.

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Seriously Trivial

For the lover of lists, charts, and compendia of facts.

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Ruling Women

Five biographies of dynamic -- sometimes despotic -- female leaders.

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Holiday Feasts

New and time-tested guides to loading the family table with seasonal riches.

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Ernest Hemingway

Readings that explore and celebrate the writer's career, paired with selections from his best work.

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Dogs

Books that celebrate a special relationship.

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Hell

Infernally good reading.

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Monologists

Voices in the dark.

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Pasta

The shapely pleasures of a favorite food.

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Astronomy

Heavenly reading for backyard stargazers and armchair astronauts.

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Digital War

Cryptographers, hackers, and combat by virus: reports from the next front.

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Dangerous Minds

Revolutionaries, geniuses, and master manipulators of history.

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Fashion

Reading with style.

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Celebrating Steig

It's hard to pick just five of William Steig's enchanting books, but that didn't stop us from trying.

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Tennis

The U.S. Open is this week, so we decided to offer up some literary power serves.

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Spain

Works to trace the grandeur of a nation's history.

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Video Games

History, myths, and stories of the digital playground.

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Sailing

Voyages, stories, and adventures at sea.

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Getaway Tales

Books that put the "beach" in beach read.

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Mountaineering

Exhilaration, heroics, death and laughter atop the world's tallest peaks.

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Grilling

Tips, techniques, and tasty recipes for amateurs, experts, and connoisseurs.

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February 9: Alice Walker was born on this day in 1944. Thirty years after her Pulitzer winner The Color Purple, Walker continues to publish in many genres. Her most recent book is The Chicken Chronicles, a memoir-meditation…

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Alice James

"The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science," Jean Strouse writes of her subject's more famous brothers, "Alice simply lived." It took a biographer of sensitivity and brilliance to give that "simply" the profundity it deserves, and the resulting book, now reissued in the peerless NYRB Classics series, is one of the richest life stories you'll ever read.

Midnight in Austenland

The world of Jane Austen's fiction has long been an imaginative playground for writers and readers of a certain stripe. Shannon Hale's Austenland wittily took the next step, setting comic romance in a faux-Pemberly resort for the Darcy-smitten. Her latest returns for more Regency fun, but with a twist: does murder stalk Pembrook Park?

Humble Homes, Simple Shacks...

Childlike retreat? Arts and crafts challenge? Frugal and eco-friendly living option? The notion of the "tiny house" has the surprising potential to fire the imagination. In this exuberant volume of sketches, plans, and commentary, the artist Derek Diedricksen shares his infectious enthusiasm for the idea of the micro-mansion.