




The struggles of three sisters from Long Island after one of them retreats from life’s sorrows to live in a fairy-tale world all her own. Times editor’s look at how an eco-radical’s use of a scorched-earth policy against fur farmers led to the rise of the Animal Liberation Front. Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American WildernessĪn L.A. One Ring Circus: Dispatches From the World of BoxingĪn anthology of the pugilist’s art and its many players: the stars, the amateurs, the trainers, even the cut men. Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant - and Save His LifeĪ portrait of New York City in the transitional 1970s as a varied cast of characters copes with loss, political upheaval and change. Orphaned, wealthy and with an unfortunate name, a black boy known as Not Sidney Poitier throws social hierarchies into chaos.Ī body in his basement leads a famous chef into an unsettling world of femmes fatales and secret crimes. How the author fled life in New York City for a farmhouse on a mountain. Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese Henry Ford’s purchase of a vast plantation in the Amazon led to an experiment (unsuccessful) in exporting America to other lands. What should you do when you receive a postcard from your dead mother?įordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City The filmmaker’s diaries of the struggles behind the making of his 1982 epic of a would-be rubber baron. The City of Angels’ un-angelic, corrupt past, as experienced by a public prosecutor and a crime-scene investigator.Ĭonquest of the Useless: Reflections From the Making of “Fitzcarraldo” The author of “The Shadow of the Wind” describes a diabolical deal between a young writer and his mysterious shadowy client.Ī Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral CultureĪ snapshot of our information age’s frenzied metamorphosis.
