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How much is enough? At its core, William Nicholson's The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life is about abundance. When I began reading t...

The past week has been a heavy one of studying for exams, writing papers, and school-related reading at bookeywookey. So I uncharacteristic...

A question much on my mind as I get ready to pack for vacation:When you travel, how many books do you bring with you? Has this changed sin...

What are you reading right now? What made you choose it? Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? I'm reading three books actively ...

I continue to dip into Richard Dawkins's impressive and diverse collection of science writing, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writ...

I have a thing for writers who understand the experience of those who do not fit life's molds, and who make that less-than-common exp...

Will Blythe in the New York Times Book Review thought it was "pitch perfect." Oprah called it a tour de force. Even Mookse a...

The 2008 film Summer Hours is all about legacy. It captures the lives of three siblings around the death of their mother, Helene, who was ...

I would like to draw your attention to Steven Erlanger's tender portrait in The New York Times of nearly 100-year-old Hans Keilson,...

English-born historian and travel writer William Dalrymple has spent 25 years writing about Asia, particularly India. His Nine Lives bemoa...

Just a quickie today to say, if you haven't seen the piece in the Science Times on clinician and researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier , ...

I just stared and stared at this painting at the stunning show currently on at MoMa - Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 . Exploring its...

As a working scientist, Stephen Jay Gould had a good deal of practice thinking about trends in the natural world in the language of statist...

Sarah Salway's Tell Me Everything was not only my favorite novel of 2007, it introduced me to an artist who, like me, is fascinated b...

Two musicals in two weeks, and on Broadway no less, that has to be a record for me and the Ragazzo. We saw the Lincoln Center Theater re...

By coincidence the Ragazzo and I ended up watching two documentaries last weekend: They could not have been more different. Agnes Varda,...

I really should be writing about Stephen Jay Gould's Full House which I just finished, and which is a fantastic book on two subjects I ...

From Sondheim's A Little Night Music - Judi Dench singing Send in The Clowns. and, oh my god, Simon Russell Beale, Daniel Evans, Julie...

A bunch of us did a quintessential summer in New York thing Saturday. We waited on line in Central Park for free tickets for Shakespeare in ...