While timing may not be everything, it can be key. Walking around in white satin and a purple boa might land you in the pokey unless you time your fashion assault for trick-or-treat. Closing in on  

Ah, delicious indulgence. Midnight Snacks; 150 Easy and Enticing Alternatives to Standing by the Freezer Eating Ice Cream from the Carton by Michael J. Rosen and Sharon Reiss. It's impossible no  

This edition of Fine Print is dedicated to the memory of Michael McCabe and the hundreds of other former neighbors and fellow commuters who lost their lives at WTC. Even after months of researc  

Bel Canto has won a fistful of awards, each richly-deserved, each heralding a lyrical, enchanting talent not to be missed. Ann Patchett writes of normal, everyday people wrapped into situations   

Let's begin. American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Mad Max meets Dogma meets Road to Perdition. Wildly imaginative. Very dark. Dramatically upping the ante, Gaiman takes off from British castles and atm  

Not long ago, book-bent folks spent their summers slogging through a single epic tome, like Gravity's Rainbow or War and Peace, approaching their insufferable allegiance as if literacy was a deb  

Simply put, there's no finer gift than a book, reflecting smartly on both the giver and the receiver. Sublime, questioning, sophisticated, original, curious, charitable, wise, caustic -- a book