Review: ‘Unabrow’ by Una LaMarche
The cover of "Unabrow," the first essay collection by young-adult novelist Una LaMarche, is a portrait of the author as a young, cute, eager, unibrowed girl. "Poor thing," one thinks,...
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Review: ‘My Sunshine Away’ by M.O. Walsh
The book publicist's job — to turn an unknown book and/or author into a best-selling phenom — is not easy nowadays. Nearly a million books are published annually in the...
Review: ‘The Woman I Wanted to Be’ by Diane von Furstenberg
Barbara Walters, speaking last month at the celebrity-studded launch party for "The Woman I Wanted to Be," said this about 67-year-old Diane von Furstenberg: "She does what she wants to...
Review: ‘Electric City’ by Elizabeth Rosner
Before the name Electric City there were other names, and before those names there were no names at all. The river carved itself into the valley, remembering everything. ... The...
Review: ‘Being Miss America’ by Kate Shindle
The Miss America Pageant: good thing or bad thing? In this well-researched, compellingly written, page-turner of a memoir/journalistic exposé, former Miss America Kate Shindle says it's both: "The largest provider...
Review: ‘Powers of Two’ by Joshua Wolf Shenk
Who wouldn't want to keep reading a book that opens with an intimate, real-time replication of the creative process that brought us the Beatles? On March 29, 1967, around two...
Review: ‘Bad Feminist’ by Roxane Gay
Don't tear other women down, because even if they're not your friends, they are women and this is just as important," Roxane Gay writes in "Bad Feminist." "This is not...
Review: ‘Life Drawing’ by Robin Black
Wives and husbands have extramarital affairs. People we love die young. Intimacy can be healing or diabolical or both. Grief fades but never dies. We know these things. Novelists, journalists,...
Review: ‘A Replacement Life’ by Boris Fishman
They're everywhere these days, the Russians. By "Russians" I mean Russian-Americans, about 3 million of whom reside in the United States. And by "everywhere," I mean locales as unexpected as...
Review: ‘A Replacement Life’ by Boris Fishman
They're everywhere these days, the Russians. By "Russians" I mean Russian-Americans, about 3 million of whom reside in the United States. And by "everywhere," I mean locales as unexpected as...