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Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef
Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern
Reviewed by Kate Thornberry, Food, Feb. 10, 2011
Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free
Karen Morgan
Reviewed by Kate Thornberry, Food, Feb. 10, 2011
The Fates Will Find Their Way
A small town wonders about the girl who got away in this debut novel
Reviewed by Monica Riese, Books, Feb. 10, 2011
The Mother Who Stayed
Furman blocks together stories of incredible grace and heft from materials as humble as they come: the dips and turns of family life
Reviewed by Sarah Smith, Books, Jan. 27, 2011
The Empty Family
If you want to be sad – to surrender to the profundity and variety and physical force of that sensation – Colm Tóibín is your man
Reviewed by Cindy Widner, Books, Jan. 20, 2011
The Lover's Dictionary
David Levithan makes the personal work universally and vice versa
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Books, Jan. 20, 2011
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
This chronological overview of gaming's greatest hits is a nostalgia trip
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Screens, Dec. 17, 2010
New in Print
Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Dec. 17, 2010
Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
This posthumous collection showcases Barry Hannah's wit, his humor, and an ear finely tuned to the myriad dialects of the South
Reviewed by Katherine Smith, Books, Dec. 10, 2010
Great House
Krauss charts the life cycle of love in alternating chapters, from new love and lost love to lovelessness
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Books, Dec. 10, 2010
Donald Judd
Oversized books
Reviewed by Cindy Widner, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
Sci-Fi Art
John Freeman
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book
Lynda Barry
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
Bernard DeVoto
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
100 Dresses: The Costume Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harold Koda
Reviewed by Anne Harris, Books, Dec. 3, 2010
The Essential 'New York Times' Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century
Need help making that Black Friday shopping list? Here's a selection of great cookbook ideas with something to delight any foodie you know.
Reviewed by Kate Thornberry, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
What to Cook & How To Cook It
Jane Hornby
Reviewed by Mick Vann, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
The Cookbook Collector: A Novel
Allegra Goodman
Reviewed by MM Pack, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Good Eats 2: The Middle Years
Alton Brown
Reviewed by Claudia Alarcón, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Growing Tasty Tropical Plants: In Any Home, Anywhere.
Laurelynn & Byron Martin
Reviewed by Claudia Alarcón, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Soups + Sides
Catherine Walthers
Reviewed by Kate Thornberry, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies
Alice Medrich
Reviewed by Virginia B. Wood, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking
Nick Malgieri
Reviewed by Monica Riese, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Seasonal Fruit Desserts: From Orchard, Farm, and Market
Deborah Madison
Reviewed by Rachel Feit, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France
Joan Nathan
Reviewed by Rachel Feit, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Living Gluten and Dairy-Free With French Gourmet Food
Alain Braux
Reviewed by Cindy Widner, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Thai Street Food
David Thompson
Reviewed by Mick Vann, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Let Me Tell You About Wine: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Wine/Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects
Oz Clarke and Mark Oldman
Reviewed by Wes Marshall, Food, Nov. 26, 2010
Exley: A Novel
This is a book that charms without seeming to try
Reviewed by Cindy Widner, Books, Nov. 19, 2010
Bandit Love
Good wine and thugs, in translation
Reviewed by Katherine Smith, Books, Nov. 19, 2010
I Shall Wear Midnight
In this fourth Tiffany Aching novel, the young witch becomes a woman
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Oct. 29, 2010
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
This ingenious debut novel is set in a time-skipping future
Reviewed by Audra Schroeder, Books, Oct. 29, 2010
The Widower's Tale: A Novel
A funny and subtle portrait of a family negotiating continuing crises from National Book Award-winner Julia Glass
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Books, Oct. 8, 2010
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
Reissue of Netherland author Joseph O'Neill's inquiry into his grandfathers' pasts
Reviewed by Jay Trachtenberg, Books, Oct. 8, 2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Memphis native Sides is a great storyteller, and Hellhound often reads more like historical fiction than nonfiction
Reviewed by Nick Barbaro, Books, Oct. 1, 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
For the Comanche history novice, this is an entertaining and easy-to-read starting point, but not a very intellectually strenuous one
Reviewed by Ed Baker, Books, Oct. 1, 2010
The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel
In this beautifully written short novel, García revisits the theme of cultural identity that arises from the isolation and dislocation from one's homeland
Reviewed by Jay Trachtenberg, Books, Sep. 17, 2010
A Curable Romantic: A Novel
A twice-married virgin wanders sexually liberated Vienna and collides with – who else? – Freud
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Books, Sep. 17, 2010
Zero History
The onetime king of modern sci-fi is becoming less Ray Bradbury and more John le Carré
Reviewed by Richard Whittaker, Books, Sep. 10, 2010
To Hell With Cronjé
What makes this novel and its fresh English-language publication so timely is that its themes have become uncomfortably familiar
