This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown, 137 pp. $14.99
Three years before he hanged himself at age 46 on the patio of the ranch house in Claremont, Calif., that he shared with his wife, Karen Green, David Foster Wallace gave Read More
Women , photographs by Annie Leibovitz, essay by Susan Sontag. Random House, 239 pages, $75.
At the beginning of the essay that introduces her friend Annie Leibovitz’s new book of pictures, Women , Susan Sontag tells us that most of the women photographed are fully clothed, and therefore it is “not the other kind Read More
It’s tricky: What do you do if you’re a man in your mid-30′s and you find yourself driving around the mountains of upstate New York in a state of some internal misery, falling for the voice and music of a female rock star? Not a “mature” performer like Shawn Colvin or Patti Smith, mind you, Read More
