Books

Two new books tap into a growing feeling of ‘continent envy’—the idea that we really belong somewhere else

On his Jewish grandmother, his atheism, his writing—and facing his own mortality

The 96-year-old composer of the classic holiday song talks about his life

Plus: Walter Mosley’s latest, a biography of the Atlantic Ocean, the father of modern taxidermy, what Boomers can expect from the rest of life, and the late night TV wars

A top British food writer turns the ‘stars in my pastries’ into the saviours of his savoury dishes

On the highs and lows of the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Straight women with kind, loving husbands explain why they became lesbians

If you’re the ‘martyr’ in a relationship with a ‘taker,’ here’s some expert advice

Plus, a memoir about accidentally killing a cyclist, an exhaustive Paul McCartney bio, an inventive new fantasy novel, the arms race historians forgot, and a commune for therapists

By compromising his own security, Kennedy made himself impossible to protect