True Compass : a Memoir

The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: ?deeply affecting?Mr. Kennedy is not a particularly introspective writer?he acknowledges in these pages that he coped with the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby by pushing his grief down, by trying to keep moving forward so as to stay ahead of the darkness and not to be […]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : a Year of Food Life

Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow […]