Reader's Edge

Life Is Art
Lifestyle Life Is Art
Reader's Edge in 2025
Lifestyle Reader's Edge in 2025
Collecting the Leader's Edge book reviews in one place.
If we view the beached whale as an outsized, blubbery metaphor for the intrusion of modernity on the island, the arrival shortly thereafter of two ethnographers drives home the point. Modernity, too, arrives on non-negotiable terms, outsized, and provoking varying points of view, both positive and negative, regarding its impacts.
Lifestyle The Burdens of Desire
History Big and Small
Lifestyle History Big and Small
With his storyteller’s gifts, David McCullough illuminates U.S. history through individual lives.
The Safety of Friends
Lifestyle The Safety of Friends
In Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner gently leads the reader through the ups and downs of four friends’ lifetime together.
Unpacking Family Secrets
Lifestyle Unpacking Family Secrets
In Sandwich, an annual family vacation at the shore strays away from the beach and into serious territory.
Beauty Resides Within Art, and Within Us
Lifestyle Beauty Resides Within Art, and Within Us
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a connection with art may heal life’s wounds.