Excerpt: 'The Latehomecomer'
Kao Kalia Yang's memoir is both a family chronicle and a history of the Hmong people.
Arts
Excerpt: 'The School of Essential Ingredients'
Whether you love to cook or not, you will be charmed by The School of Essential Ingredients. You need to be warned, though... you will want to eat your way through it.
Journalism's Courageous, Cantankerous Hero
D.D. Guttenplan's biography of iconic investigative reporter I.F. Stone is well-researched and gracefully written. American Radical gets inside the head and heart of this anti-establishment journalist who became a Washington insider.
Novelist Explores Book Groups, Hollywood-Style
In Chandler Burr's You or Someone Like You, the wife of a powerful Hollywood executive unexpectedly finds herself at the helm of a popular book group. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a "smart novel" that offers "a very tough reflection on the idea of 'group-ness' itself"
Recipes: 'The Spice Kitchen'
In her quirky, globe-trotting book The Spice Kitchen Michal Haines displays a range of culinary endeavor that would dazzle the most jaded spice merchant on the Silk Road.
Recipes: 'Preserved'
Even if you don't want to salt your own pork, smoke your own duck or preserve your own lemons, that's OK. Preserved, by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton, is filled with recipes that will work with dried, canned and preserved goods from the store too.
Recipes: 'Tacos'
In case you were wondering when would be the best time to get beyond the fast-food tacos you grew up with, that time is now.
Recipes: 'Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned'
In Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned, Elizabeth Karmel skips the usual macho seminar on flame-taming and gear, and instead trains her laser-like focus on the real prize: where the flavor comes from.