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★★★★★ Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent is an essential new addition to the two-hundred-year-old Russian literary canon and may be the best novel about 20th-century Russia since Boris Pasternak’s 1957 classic Doctor Zhivago....
★★★★★ “There is a house in New Orleans / They call the Rising Sun / And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy / And, God, I know I’m one.” – The...
★★★★☆ Dismas, Swiss ex-mercenary turned monk turned connoisseur of holy items, is beholden to two patrons: Frederick the Wise of Saxony, protector of Martin Luther, whose collections of relics is rivaled only by the...
This year, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology celebrated 100 years of connecting people to birds with this incredible guide to birds of North America. Comprised of more than 250 photos from photographer Gerrit Vyn...
★★★☆☆ The Evolution of Everything begins with an intriguing idea – that the conversational use of “evolve” is accurate. Darwin’s evolution, Matt Ridley says, is like the special relativity of evolution, but that the...
★★★☆☆ Imagine. It’s 1978, and John Lennon has left New York, left Yoko Ono and their young son Sean (to whom Lennon has been playing stay-at-home dad), and split for Ireland, “in its drizzle...
Scottish illustrator, Johanna Basford, led the recent explosion of adult coloring books with Secret Garden (2013), a collection of pen-and-ink illustrations based upon castle gardens and specifically upon her childhood visits to the Isle...
Cabin Porn is a beautiful, beautiful book. It’s an exercise in voyeurism, really, a window through which those of us shackled to our corporate cubicles and our safe and comfortable homes in the cities...
At 32-years-old and married with one child, Jeremy Collins heard the voice that whispers to us all – settle down, work harder, buy a bigger house and a better car… grow up. But Jeremy...
