Eliza McGraw
Content by Eliza McGraw
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Interspersed with autobiographical observations, Jennifer Ackerman's Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body is both a personal and generalized tour of the human body.
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“Happy” earned his nickname.
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The thing about The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead is that it sounds like a very depressing book.
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Chance in the House of Fate, Jennifer Ackerman's fascinating new book, is natural both in mission and execution.
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Reading through the material in Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why is grueling.
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Anyone who has read Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita has probably wondered what Mrs. Nabokov thought about her husband's literary preoccupation with pedophilia.
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Now we are together for the first time. We have actually become, as is often said of a happily married couple, inseparable, John Bayley writes of his current life with his wife Iris Murdoch.
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Review by Eliza R. L.
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Throughout his remarkably comprehensive study of crying, Tom Lutz manages to combine very different media and disciplines film, anthropology, psychology while maintaining focus on the sheer humanit
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Readers familiar with William Least Heat-Moon's sojourns will welcome this latest addition to his works.
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Karen E. Bender's novel Like Normal People makes the reader consider the ramifications of the title. Are there such creatures as normal people?
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vid portrait of a time of flux in an ancient country, Peter Hessler's River Town is a moving account of his experiences as a foreigner or waiguoren in small-town China.
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“Stereo Sue” sounds like the handle of a fast-talking disc jockey, but Susan Barry, author of Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
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Why do we remember some advertising jingles and not others? How did we learn to wear seatbelts? Why do we scan food labels looking for trans fats?
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In its own way, Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point exemplifies its subtitle: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
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