Author Archive
August 16, 2017In her moving, elegiac new novel, Claire Messud alludes to childhood as a Wordsworthian time when we still trail clouds of glory...
June 13, 2017It's been said that if there are raised letters on the jacket cover and the pages have a ragged, hand-cut look, the book's important...
May 3, 2017The name Tim Ferriss meant little to me until his father, a friend, showed me some magazine articles with his son on the cover, noting, proudly, that Tim...
January 1, 2017In Avid Reader , an autobiographical account of his long life in editing and publishing, 85-year-old Robert Gottlieb says in a prefatory note that he
