When "The Encyclopedia Britannica" published a new edition in 1911, it referred to the life and work of Swedish playwright August Strindberg in tones of praise and disgust.
Here's another "big book," full of color and splash by the co-founder of the catering firm Glorious Food Inc.
Cartographer Sam Adams delights in naming things, his children as much as a forest or river on a new map.
"Crescendo" is Laura Kalpakian's third novel and her fourth book.
"Ulysses" was written under adverse circumstances over seven years, mangled by poor typing, by James Joyce's obsession with massive additions even upon proof sheets, and by the errors inherent in having this English text set by French printers.
The next time Col.
Much as technology has radically altered the nature of weapons and warfare in recent decades, so it also has drastically changed the means of gathering military intelligence.
Although he was born in Michigan and attended the Yale Drama School among other very in-town institutions, Thomas McGuane lives in Montana and writes often and well about a contemporary working West enriched by various forms of collision.
The parade of mouthwatering desserts in Shere's book were created by Shere over the last 13 years while she was the pastry chef at Chez Panisse in Berkeley.
Within the spy fiction category is a sub-genre called Paranoids--tales of manipulations, conspiracies and plots for world domination or destruction concocted by dark and grandly evil organizations (within and without the United States).
There are useful things in a daily newspaper that you would not think of collecting in a book.
Ordinarily, when a book inspires a great prepublication brouhaha, who should care?
Behind the tourist's Paris is a city that struggles to regain momentum and a sense of purpose that drifts between the lure of the technological, "European" future, and a longing for the golden past.
Yves Montand never had to say to his wife, Simone Signoret, as Diaghilev did to Picasso: "Surprise me."
There are any number of ways to be touched by a book, but it usually begins through one set of artifices or another, made up out of imagery, style, suspense, evocativeness and a compelling vision that together form an accumulation of moments such as poet Marianne Moore has described, as...
Bill Cosby has a much-loved comedy routine entitled, "Why Is There Air?"
What a book! Toby Olson takes on almost everything that a work of fiction can bear.
Sue Hubbell, daughter of a botanist, a former librarian at Brown University, has been living for the last 12 years on 100 acres in the southern Missouri Ozarks, mostly alone.
Titles are important.
Celebrity autobiographies? Ugh!