Some 3,000 years ago, the preacher in Ecclesiastes proclaimed, ‘Of making many books there is no end,” but how those …
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Some 3,000 years ago, the preacher in Ecclesiastes proclaimed, ‘Of making many books there is no end,” but how those …
The title of Tom Rosenstiel’s latest thriller, ‘Oppo,” is a euphemism for digging up unseemly information about a political opponent. …
A perfect gift book is not for reading. Not now. You don’t want to give someone a book, watch them …
Carmen Maria Machado opened her first book, the National Book Award finalist ‘Her Body and Other Parties: Stories”, with this …
Death, be not proud. But for the sake of the dearly departed, please give them a worthy obituary. Mo Rocca, …
One of the most striking moments in Sarah M. Broom’s enthralling memoir, ‘The Yellow House,” comes near its end. Broom’s …
In a crisis? Take notes, Nora Ephron advised, because ‘everything is copy.” Diagnosed in 2014 with an aggressive breast cancer, …
The season of all seasons is upon us. And these children’s books about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and wintertime are just …
’Be Recorder” By Carmen Gimenez Smith (Graywolf) Moving between short lines and prose poems, Smith’s verse can be sharply political …
At first they thought the problem might be blocked sinuses, but when Noel Holston’s hearing evaporated overnight and did not …
SEATTLE – Laureen Nussbaum pulled a 76-year-old diary off a bookshelf in her Wallingford apartment. When her German refugee family …
If Thanksgiving with the family still is buzzing on your nerves, it could be worse. You could have a family …
What happens to the set of heirloom china no one in the family wants? Where does your iPhone 5 end …
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