Food & Cooking
Saveur
There was never any question of what we would eat for dinner. The Yildirim family has been raising sheep for as long as anyone can remember, and lamb—roasted whole in a wood-burning oven, then served chopped to bits on communal…Read Article
Teen & YA
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All the Stars in the Heavens
Adriana Trigiani
Spencer leaned forward and opened the script on the coffee table. He had memorized the entire script, dialogue and stage directions. Most movie actors learn their lines and cues for the scene work for that particular day, but not Tracy;…Read more
Lifestyle
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Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
Alan Light
The stage is dark. A chord rings out.It’s an unusual chord—a B flat suspended 2 with a D in the bass. A year from this night, the sound of that chord will be enough to drive audiences into hysteria. But…Read more
Books & Ideas
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen
For as long as I can remember, my mother has been talking to her dead parents. Growing up, I would find her in the kitchen, locked in conversation with Mama and Baba. At the sink, her hands scrubbing a dish,…Read more
Science & Tech
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in…
David Grann
Let me be clear: I am not an explorer or an adventurer. I don’t climb mountains or hunt. I don’t even like to camp. I stand less than five feet nine inches tall and am nearly forty years old, with…Read more
Business & Innovation
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High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
A manager can do his “own” job, his individual work, and do it well, but that does not constitute his output. If the manager has a group of people reporting to him or a circle of people influenced by him,…Read more
SF & Fantasy
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Armada: A Novel
Ernest Cline
You see, ever since the first day of kindergarten, I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education. I had spent hundreds of hours gazing out at…Read more
Food & Cooking
Family Fun And Food Along the Grand Strand
Cooking with Paula Deen
March-April 2016
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is the centerpiece of the Grand Strand, a 60-mile stretch of beach running from the North Carolina–South Carolina border southward along the Atlantic coast. Myrtle Beach is a family-friendly destination with tons of entertainment, attractions, restaurants,…Read Article
Books & Ideas
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in…
Michael Eric Dyson
The private plane of presidential candidate Barack Obama taxied down the runway and came to a stop near the SUV that would ferry him, Obama’s Harvard Law School professor and then adviser Charles Ogletree, and his campaign aide Ertharin Cousin and…Read more
