Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
He Trains Horses. He’s Not Talking Only About Horses: ‘When Something Is Scared for Its Life… I Understand That.’
— Buy it on Amazon. Buck Brannaman specializes in the improbable. Got a skittish, poorly trained horse? A bucking bronco? A steed who seems not to care about anything? When an owner brings that uncooperative beast to one of Buck’s clinics, very quickly — often in a matter of minutes — he gets your horse…
She Wrote ‘Hound Dog’ and Recorded It Before Elvis. Also ‘Ball and Chain.’ Know Her Name?
— Buy it on Amazon. The first night she sang at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, she was Willie Mae Thornton, and she was the opening act. The following night, as “Big Mama” Thornton, she was the headliner. That overnight success came in 1952, when Willie Mae was 26. By then, she had moved far beyond the…
130 Degrees in Death Valley. Rolling Power Blackouts in California.
And how heated are our politics now? Something told me: Time for a snowball.
And how heated are our politics now? Something told me: Time for a snowball.
An Instant American Classic and Almost Certainly the Keynote Nonfiction Book of the American Century Thus Far
— Buy it on Amazon. Dwight Garner, the brilliant and trustworthy New York Times book critic, is not known to gush, and yet this is the first paragraph of a recent review: “’Caste’ is an extraordinary document, one that strikes me as an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the…
The 6th Biggest Selling Book in the English Language
Black Beauty
Black Beauty
She Sat in a Starbucks in Ohio and Wrote 140 Words. A Year Later She Was Famous.
Maggie Smith: Good Bones
Maggie Smith: Good Bones
A Writer Has a Book Coming Out in Two Months
When was the last time the Times did a feature about the writer that promotes her previous books – all of them?
When was the last time the Times did a feature about the writer that promotes her previous books – all of them?
Weekend Butler: A Film From the Director of Two Bourne Movies. Set in Northern Ireland, 1972. Extremely Relevant — Just Watch the Videos
— Buy it on Amazon. It took a 12-year investigation that cost $280 million and filled 5,000 pages. But now we know. In the words of British Prime Minister David Cameron: “What happened should never, ever have happened… Some members of our armed forces acted wrongly. The government is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the armed forces.…
When the Going Gets Ugly, You Want to Reach Higher. I Don’t Think You Can Reach Higher Than This
Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler: All the Roadrunning
Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler: All the Roadrunning
Last Summer’s Hot Novel: ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble.’ This Year’s Hot Short Story: ‘Fleishman Is in Lockdown’
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Fleishman Is in Trouble
The Way Things Are Going, I’d Want to Billboard Anything With ‘Ecstasy’ in the Title
Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
The Calendar Says July, But Let’s Not Kid Ourselves — It’s February All Over Again, This Time Worse. What to Do? If Anyone Has a Clue, She Does.
Pema Chodron: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Does the News Depress You? Here’s a Way to Look at It — and Not Feel Crushed
GUEST BUTLER CRAIG LAMBERT is the author of Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day and Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing. He was a longtime staff writer and editor at Harvard Magazine.
GUEST BUTLER CRAIG LAMBERT is the author of Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day and Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing. He was a longtime staff writer and editor at Harvard Magazine.
This Weekend, With All That’s Going On, If I Could Watch a Film for the First Time… This
Van Gogh: A movie (“At Eternity’s Gate”) and a book (“Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days”)
Van Gogh: A movie (“At Eternity’s Gate”) and a book (“Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days”)
The Title Has Recently Become a Meme and a Cliche. The Book: Pure Joy, High on My Top 10 List.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera