As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...
A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution ...
A Life,” Mark Oppenheimer’s thoughtful, thorough biography, makes the case that the writer, whose books in the 1970s and 80s made her famous (and infamous), was both a timeless literary talent and a ...