How do you organize your books? Like everything in my life, it’s kind of random. I’ve got reading stations all over the ranch, and I’m pretty...
In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics...
The author of “The Heirloom Gardener” offers tips for growing a garden of lush perennials you can put in a soup or add to a salad.
A 1766 Dutch farmhouse in Claverack, a two-bedroom condominium in a loft building in Boston and a 1912 Colonial Revival home in Philadelphia.
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday — and underground — practice.
At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation, audio from the event revealed.
A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.
In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.
A hands-on renovation during the early part of the pandemic produced a place to call home that doubles as a home office.