Holiday Gift Guide 2017
OnThere are a hundred thousand interests and there are millions of books, but here are a handful that might make those you love realize just how much you care.
Tag: non-fiction
Art & Culture: A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work by Miranda K. Pennington
OnPassionate readers understand that a wonderful book — one that resonates strongly — can leave a lasting impression. Can, in fact, sometimes change your life. That is the premise, and in fact that glue that binds, of A Girl Walks Into A…
Non-Fiction: The War and Environment Reader
by Gar Smith
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(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
Cookbooks: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
by Mark Bittman
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When it comes to food, Mark Bittman is a visionary. He’s been writing about food since 1980, and for a bunch of those years, he did it for The New York Times, where his “Minimalist” column changed the way a generation thought…
Art & Culture: Botanical Sketchbooks
by Helen and William Bynum
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Botanical artists are a breed apart. They itch to record that which exists in the natural world. Botanical Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press) by Helen and William Bynum captures both the art and the sentiment that have driven it through the ages quite…
Authors on Snacks: Ken McGoogan
OnDoes creativity have a taste? And, if it does, is it salty or sweet? January Magazine’s “Authors on Snacks” is not meant to be a judgment. Rather it’s a personal peek at what some of our most beloved authors nibble on while…
Non-Fiction: It Takes More Than Love by Aliza Israel and Avrum Nadigel
OnIt Takes More Than Love: A Workbook for Singles and Couples is a powerful tool both for those already in a relationship and for those hoping to find one. Written by esteemed husband and wife team Avrum Nadigel, a marriage and family…
Authors on Snacks: Mark Leiren-Young
OnBecause we know a great deal is required to make a book. Among the necessary ingredients? Different types of fuel. This time out we chat with award-winning author, playwright and filmmaker, Mark Leiren-Young. His most recent book, The Killer Whale Who Changed…
Non-Fiction: The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage by Anja Reich-Osang
OnA small but successful town south of Berlin. The 67-year-old wife of the former mayor, herself a pillar of the town, goes missing along with her elderly cocker spaniel. A few days later, both are found in the forest, brutally killed while…
Review: Wake Up and Live: The Life of Bob Marley
by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego
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Graphic novels, or in this case graphic biographies, are a new world to me. I’ve always looked at the arts rather like a primary school gym teacher: words over here, pictures over there, no talking in lines! PWEET! But then again, as…