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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

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Stop and look at the tangled rootlets of the poison ivy vine climbing the locust tree. Notice the way they twist around each other like plaits in a golden braid, like tendrils of seaweed washed to shore. Stop and look, but do not touch. Never, never touch, not even in winter. Stop and ponder the […]

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Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

In my defense, it was never my intent to write this book. I did not have time. No one asked me to. And several people strongly cautioned against it. Not now—not with the literal and figurative fires roiling our planet. And certainly not about this. Other Naomi—that is how I refer to her now. This […]

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Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney

Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney

THIS IS THE STORY OF the moment when American democracy began to unravel. It is the story of the men and women who fought to save it, and of the enablers and collaborators whose actions ensured the threat would grow and metastasize. It is the story of the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the […]

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

The Revolutionary Samuel Adams

SAMUEL ADAMS delivered what may count as the most remarkable second act in American life. It was all the more confounding after the first: he was a perfect failure until middle age. He found his footing at forty-one, when, over a dozen years, he proceeded to answer to Thomas Jefferson’s description of him as “truly […]

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Waypoints: My Scottish Journey

Waypoint My Scottish Journey

I have come a long way to be here. The cabin sits at the edge of the wood. Constructed from hand-split logs and timbers, it’s partially hidden by tall, majestic trees and dense foliage. Upon reaching the door, I look around and realize it has an inspiring, beautiful view of the valley and mountains beyond. […]

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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

Beyond the Wand The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

You know that person in your life who makes you feel seen? That person who is somehow a witness to all that unfolds? That person who knows—really knows—what is happening to you and what you’re going through, without anything having to be said? For me, that person is Tom Felton. As you’ll read in this […]

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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

When I look at these photographs of Mrs. Kennedy as we traveled through Europe and Asia and South America, I realize now what a privilege it was to have been part of those private, joyful moments she experienced. There we were, all over the globe, in some of the most exotic countries in the world, […]

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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

hat do you need me to say?” It was May 5, 2016, two days after the Republican primary in Indiana. I sat in the back of a yellow taxicab as it rolled down Fifth Avenue, my computer open on my lap and a phone held to my ear. The likely Republican nominee for president was […]

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Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me

Waxing On The Karate Kid and Me

he movie’s release date was set. June 22, 1984. The calendar page had flipped past the middle of May, and by that point I had not seen a frame of the finished product—only limited pieces of a black-and-white work print a few months earlier, when I was called in to participate in post-production sound. I […]

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Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul

Hold the Line The Insurrection and One Cops Battle for Americas Soul

My great-grandfather came to America to escape fascism. Ubaldo Fanone, an illiterate Italian shepherd, grew up in a small village near Monte Cassino, a Benedictine abbey founded in AD 529. Strategically located atop a small mountain, the abbey looks like a fortress. As Mussolini and Hitler solidified their alliance and World War II dawned, my […]

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man A Memoir

n September of 1986, the year he embarked on this project, an article in The New York Times described Paul Newman as “a lean 5-foot-11.” A gossip columnist in the New York Post countered that “Anyone who has met Paul face to face says he has never hit 5-foot-11 except in heels” and offered a […]

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Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition

Listening in the Dark Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition

The Body Always Knows First: An Introduction By Amber Tamblyn In the dark, my arms reach toward the sky to hold on to someone who is already gone. Asleep in my bed, the sudden jolt of my body prompted by a dream that left as quickly as it came awoke me before my alarm could. […]

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