Before you dive right into planning your big soiree or family gathering, take a bite out of this year’s most popular holiday cookbooks, all of which can be found on Amazon.com.
Debbie Macomber’s Christmas Cookbook:…
By Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
As reviewed by Macy Walsh
What exactly is a “rogue economist”? One who has stopped taking calls from his CIA handler or wears a disguise when he sneaks into the library…
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
As Reviewed by Chad Felix
Yes, The Emperor of All Maladies is an extensive biography of cancer. No, it’s not boring. As audacious and potentially long-winded as the book could be, author and cancer physician Siddhartha…
By Mary Roach
As Reviewed by Macy Walsh
Mary Roach has an uncanny penchant for tracking down the answers to the questions you never knew you had about the human body. In the past, her sideways curiosity has led her…
By Heather Turk
Although the holiday movie season may have officially kicked off Nov. 19 with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, there’s still plenty for moviegoers to unwrap this December and even into the…
By Mary Roach
As Reviewed by Macy Walsh
Mary Roach has an uncanny penchant for tracking down the answers to the questions you never knew you had about the human body. In the past, her sideways curiosity has led…
By Justin Cronin, as Reviewed by Macy Walsh
There are summer books, and then there are summer bricks; those tantalizing, toaster oven size tomes that strain beach totes with their sheer physical (if not always intellectual) heft. At 766 pages,…
By Heather Turk
Aside from being the day our nation celebrates its independence, July 4 is considered by most to be the unofficial halfway point of summer, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day. At the movie theater, however, Fourth…
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
As Reveiwed by Macy Walsh
Three Cups of Tea is not just the title of an inspiring book. It’s code for a phenomenon that began with the unlikely collaboration of a lost American…
The 2010 Spring Movie Preview
By Heather Turk
Springtime at the cineplex is usually so quiet moviegoers can hear baby birds chirping outside. Not this year, however, as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland hits theaters March 5th.
Capturing the wonder…
By Pierre Bayard
As Reviewed by Macy Walsh
Anyone who imagines that Star Wars or Star Trek or Harry Potter may claim to be the largest franchise in literary and film history has just not been paying attention. In…
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