"Therein lies the joy"
LISTS & LINKS My husband and I met our daughters several weeks ago for lunch at Bubby’s in Tribeca, followed by a trip to the McNally...
The best book you've never heard of
At first I thought, My God, this book is phenomenal! So much motion in the language, such immediate, immersive scene-setting—and the...
All About Cheating
LISTS & LINKS Sometimes you read an excerpt of a memoir about adultery, and you think, Huh. That’s an interesting structure for a book....
"The time when we are closest to each other"
LISTS & LINKS I committed my first crime in a Baton Rouge grocery store when I was four years old. A pad of stationery caught my eye–pale...
Forgetting my own difficulties
LISTS & LINKS Sometimes life leads you down a William Landay rabbit hole. Landay is the author of Defending Jacob, a book I loved when it...
It's not the books, it's me.
I’ve had a rough reading stretch. Things I’d usually love I want to hurl across the room; things I wouldn’t normally read I’m adoring....
