Raising buffalo, just like in the old days
Book review: Wild Idea: Buffalo & Family in a Difficult Land
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Books
The Impulse Society and our obsession with instant gratification
The latest book from Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil
A post-modern spin on the Habsburg empire
Book review: The Habsburgs: Dynasty, Culture and Politics
David Mitchell’s new time-travelling opus is a marvel
The Bone Clocks shouldn’t work. Mike Doherty explains why it does
Dispatches from a China we never see
A review of David Eimer’s ’The Emperor Far Away,’ a look at the ethnic minorities at China’s less-seen fringes
Short stories are beautiful, but will they sell?
Prizes and critics are in love with short stories these days. It’s those pesky readers . . .
Mãn alive: A novel of food, fulfillment and family in Vietnam
Packed with haunting, poetic detail, Kim Thúy’s ’Mãn’ is a beautiful read
4 Canadians who wrote books about being kidnapped by terrorists
Written accounts from four Canadians
An academic treatise on passive-aggression
A review of ’Dear Committee Members’, a hysterical novel about a beaten-down English prof at a second-tier U.S. university
Why global warming leaves most of us cold
George Marshall’s shrewd account of the psychology of why we ignore climate change