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Each essay explores what it means to be alive, and feel. In the aggregate, the essays provide over 400 pages of the best reading today. Throughout, we are reminded that both beauty and loss can help us remain whole.
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Book Review: ‘Residual Media’ Edited by Charles R. Acland
Explores the various forms of media that have come and gone over the course of the past century.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Early Decision’ by Lacy Crawford
Admissions into college prove to be more painful and difficult than many understand, yet when the time comes there is help available for those who can afford it.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Essays in Biography’ by Joseph Epstein
Epstein writes about subjects as varied as George Washington and Michael Jordan with erudite style.
Read More »Book Review: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media by Nora Ephron
The wit and wisdom of Nora Ephron's world as a New York journalist remain fresh and funny.
Read More »Book Review: Rich People Things: Real-Life Secrets of the Predator Class by Chris Lehmann
Rich People Things showcases 19 provocative essays skewerimg the sacred cows of the rich.
Read More »Book Review: Beginning To See The Light: Sex, Hope and Rock-and-Roll and No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by Ellen Willis
Two reissued books feature some of the best essays of rock critic and social observer Ellen Willis.
Read More »Book Review: Brad Pitt’s Dog: Essays on Fame/Death/Punk by Johan Kugelberg
Pop culture for the from a punk point of view, told with flights of rhetorical flash.
Read More »Book Review: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
In all modesty, Anna Quindlen has nothing to be modest about.
Read More »Book Review: Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
Compelling essays on life, illness, and art.
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