Book Excerpt: I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World
…you must lie to us sometimes, those late night calls where all I can hear is your heavy breathing and you mumble “I love you” just once before hanging up….
Natalie Standiford’s Astrid Sees All charts the course of a young friendship in early 1980s New York City
…leads the way, at first bringing Phoebe into a shimmering atmosphere of Gatsby-themed parties and the casual presence of genuine celebrities. But Carmen also leads Phoebe into the sub-world of…
J. Nicole Jones conjures her South Carolina family’s storied past in Low Country
…bourbon decanter and not a golden calf. That we had been praying to the alcohol all along explained a few things.” Jones oscillates between loving compassion for those who shaped…
Margaret Renkl weaves personal and natural history in Late Migrations
…learned to read.” The natural histories complement and enlarge the personal ones. Renkl’s wry appraisal of both human and nonhuman animals is affectionate yet unsentimental. From the Nashville suburbs where…
Alan Lightman explores the limits of knowledge in Probable Impossibilities
…For example, there’s Caltech physicist Sean Carroll’s theory of “Two-Headed Time,” which builds on the work of fellow physicist Alan Guth. Carroll posits that time has existed forever and the…
In The Caring Class, Richard Schweid examines the world of home health aides
…Bronx. An employee-owned model for home care workers, CHCA serves clients throughout the Bronx. The women who tend to apply for CHCA jobs have already faced profound challenges. Many have…
