Reads from 2013

The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013

From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.

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Jane, the Fox and Me: A Gorgeous Graphic Novel about the Travails of Youth Inspired by Charlotte Brontë

A tender illustrated story about acceptance and belonging.

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Love and Math: Equations as an Equalizer for Humanity

“Mathematics is the source of timeless profound knowledge, which goes to the heart of all matter and unites us across cultures, continents, and centuries.”

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To Live Long, Write for Children: Remembering Charlotte Zolotow

Honoring one of the biggest hearts and most brilliant minds in children’s literature.

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Voltaire on the Perils of Censorship, the Freedom of the Press, and the Rewards of Reading

“The man of taste will read only what is good; but the statesman will permit both bad and good.”

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This Is Love: Neil Gaiman’s Bachelor Party the Night Before He Married Amanda Palmer

An uncommon story of uncommon romance.

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Anne Lamott on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.”

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Charles Dickens’s Heartening Fan Mail to George Eliot

“The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.”

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Duke Ellington’s Diet

What the celebrated composer’s relationship with food reveals about the inner conflicts we share.

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Wild Raspberries: Young Andy Warhol’s Little-Known Vintage Cookbook

The story of a labor-of-love masterpiece that lay dormant for nearly half a century.

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Reads from 2013

From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.

A tender illustrated story about acceptance and belonging.

“Mathematics is the source of timeless profound knowledge, which goes to the heart of all matter and unites us across cultures, continents, and centuries.”

Honoring one of the biggest hearts and most brilliant minds in children’s literature.

“The man of taste will read only what is good; but the statesman will permit both bad and good.”

An uncommon story of uncommon romance.

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.”

“The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.”

What the celebrated composer’s relationship with food reveals about the inner conflicts we share.

The story of a labor-of-love masterpiece that lay dormant for nearly half a century.

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