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Review: 'The River You Touch,' by Chris Dombrowski

NONFICTION: A poet and river guide celebrates family life and the environment in a new memoir.
October 7, 2022

Review: 'Mothercare,' by Lynne Tillman

NONFICTION: A novelist recounts the experience of caring for her ailing, dependent mother.
August 5, 2022

Review: 'Happy-Go-Lucky' by David Sedaris

NONFICTION: More comic essays, this time in a more somber vein, from the celebrated satirist.
May 27, 2022
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Review: 'Off the Edge,' by Kelly Weill

A journalist investigates the reasons some people believe the Earth is flat and other conspiracy theories.
February 18, 2022
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Review: 'Chasing History,' by Carl Bernstein

NONFICTION: A legendary newspaper journalist looks back at the formative years of his career.
January 7, 2022
Carl Bernstein photo by Jonathan Becker

Review: 'On Animals,' by Susan Orlean

NONFICTION: A quarter-century of essays about animals and their humans from one of America's most noted animal lovers.
October 8, 2021
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Review: 'Godspeed,' by Nickolas Butler

FICTION: This thriller hinges on the allure of fast riches and the perils of misplaced ambition.
July 23, 2021
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Review: 'London's No. 1 Dog Walking Agency,' by Kate MacDougall

NONFICTION: Delightful stories about an English dog-walker's unusual clients and her doubts about the arc of her life and career.
July 2, 2021
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Review: 'When Women Invented Television,' by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

NONFICTION: A journalist shines a welcome spotlight on four female pioneers of the nascent television industry.
March 26, 2021
October 15, 1954 Betty White, star of DuMont's "Life with Elizabeth" show, has just about enough time to feed her huge St. Bernard, "Stormy," before dashing off to the studio from home. November 4, 1954 United Press