Nonfiction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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  Discoveries: Pamela Druckerman

  Okay! I get it! The French are better than us in every way!

  Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012

  • Nonfiction

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  Tales From The Platinum Triangle

  Gross offers up a capsule history of the settlement of this triangular mecca and traces the westerly movement of Los Angeles’s well-to-do.

  Jeffrey BurbankFeb 21, 2012

  • Nonfiction

• Life After Papyrus: Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve"

  In The Swerve, however, death is nothing, and people aren’t much either.

  Swati PandeyFeb 17, 2012

  • History

  • Nonfiction

• Highly Irregular

  It quickly became clear that he loved Sherlock Holmes and the entire Holmes canon as much as I did, though for different reasons.

  Leslie S. KlingerFeb 16, 2012

  • Literary Criticism

  • Nonfiction

• Oppositional Thinking

  the idea that the brain's hemispheres, though linked, worked independently has a long history.

  Gary LachmanFeb 9, 2012

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

• The Symphony of Self

  Some will be uncomfortable with Damasio’s physical-monist peeking-under-the-hood of our most private inner workings ...

  Aaron P. BlaisdellFeb 7, 2012

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

• The Pleasures of Listening

  Bon mots abound.

  Glen RovenFeb 1, 2012

  • Music

  • Nonfiction

• The Art of Slacking: Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat"

  Steven G. KellmanJan 17, 2012

  • Nonfiction

• Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"

  Lindsay RecksonJan 12, 2012

  • History

  • Nonfiction

• Pop Will Meet Itself: Simon Reynolds's "Retromania"

  Whatever your take on this classically postmodern conundrum, you're liable to come away from Retromania with more questions than you had going in.

  Mike McGonigalJan 9, 2012

  • Cultural Studies

  • Nonfiction

• Household Saint

  21’s eloquence is visual, and it is a very real eloquence.

  David RothJan 9, 2012

  • Nonfiction

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Discoveries: John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Nonfiction