Faraway Love

November 15: “It is as though I fall into something from which there is no return — No road back –”  

Provence, 1970

Subtitled “M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste”, Luke Barr’s colorful recreation of a vital moment zeroes in on the outsized personalities and revolutionary culinary predilections that would forever alter...

Driving in Heaven

November 14: “We need a road, or network of roads, where we can drive the way we’ll be allowed to drive in heaven after we succumb to apoplexy caused by being stuck for six hours on I-95…”  

Furious Cool

The uproarious life of Richard Pryor, who was raised in his grandmother’s brothel, married seven times, kicked drug addiction, and became arguably history’s greatest and most influential stand-up comedian.

The Story of the Human Body

With bold illustrations and bolder thinking, Daniel Lieberman unlocks our anatomical mysteries, from our humble beginnings as fruitarians walking on four legs to a potential future of curing fatal and chronic diseases.