Locavores of Middle-Earth

January 3: “Nowadays, the average food item on our grocery store shelves travels up to fifteen hundred miles before it gets there. That’s just about the distance from Hobbiton to Mount Doom.”  

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

“As you read / the sea is turning its dark pages.”  The vivid verse of Levertov (writer, activist, and protege of T.S. Eliot) is collected in this omnibus volume, where passion and surreal wit are found in every turn of phrase.

Double Down: Game Change 2012

Co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who did so much to demystify the 2008 US presidential election, now perform the same analytical miracle for the 2012 contest, bringing it into sharp clarity.