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The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions
The Book of Marriage undertakes to provide an overview of one of the greatest human institutions at a time when its future is uncertain. This year, for the first...
In the Case of Bruno Bettelheim
The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim. By Richard Pollak.Simon & Schuster. 478 pages, $28. Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy. By Nina Sutton.Basic Books. 606...
Mere Joy
Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child By Michael Bérubé. Pantheon, 284 pages, $24. Michael Bérubé, a professor of American and African-American literature...
Jeremiah in South Dakota
The Cloister Walkby kathleen norris riverhead books, 304 pages, $23.95 I had read Norris’ previous book, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, and enjoyed the way she consistently unites the exalted...
Food for Thought – and Life
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature By Leon R. Kass Free Press. 248 pp. $24.95 Dr. Kass begins: “Be forewarned: You have picked up a...
The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Some years ago, during a spell of back trouble, I spent half an hour being wheeled around an airport in a wheelchair. For a few minutes I was alone,...
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages, $27.50 The greatest challenge the biographer faces is to grasp and reveal...
The Unfathomable Mystery of Autism
There’s a Boy In Here: A Mother and Her Son Tell the Story of His Emergence from Autism by Judy Barron and Sean Barron Simon & Schuster, 264 pages,...
