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Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in a house in Berkeley, Calif., in 1971. In the earliest days of the restaurant, Waters wore a variety of hats: chef, menu planner, CEO and waitress.

Alice Waters: 40 Years Of Sustainable Food

Waters founded her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, long before "organic" or "locally grown" entered the vernacular. In 40 Years at Chez Panisse, Waters looks back on the sustainable food movement and the momentum it has built in recent years.

Searching For Black Utopia ... In Antarctica

Mat Johnson's Pym is a modern-day sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's only novel. Poe's characters discover an island populated only by blacks. Johnson's characters set off to the South Pole to find this island but uncover something entirely different.

Author David Browne describes the young James Taylor as a shy, troubled songwriter whose album <em>Sweet Baby James</em> became an unexpected hit.

A Soothing New Sound For A Crummy New Decade

1970 was a bummer of a year: violence, political unrest and the end of The Beatles. Fire and Rain, a new book by David Browne, chronicles that turbulent year in politics and music.

In Jackson, Miss., in 1963, three very different women — from left, Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) and Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) — build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project in <em>The Help</em>, based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.

Eudora Welty's Jackson: 'The Help' In Context

In its first weekend, The Help grossed $2.5 million. But author W. Ralph Eubanks recommends Eudora Welty's "Where Is the Voice Coming From?", featured in The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty to show the full picture of a racially charged decade.

Learning Your Sister Is 'Someone Else's Twin'

A pair of identical twins lived apart for 28 years after one of them was accidentally switched with another infant in the hospital nursery. Twin expert Nancy Segal details what happened next in Someone Else's Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth.

Refined Manhattan Shines With Glamorous 'Civility'

Filled with snappy dialogue and sharp observations, Amor Towles' elegant debut novel transports readers back to New York City circa 1938.

<strong>A High Society Sisterhood:</strong> In <em>The New Yorker</em>, Dorothy Wickenden writes that at 29 and uninspired by the bachelors of Auburn, N.Y., Dorothy Woodruff (left) and Rosamond Underwood's friends and family largely considered them to be hopeless spinsters. But they were more worried about living a life without adventure or intellectual stimulation.

'Nothing Daunted': From Society Women To Pioneers

In 1916, best friends Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood left the comfort of New York society for a pioneer settlement in Colorado. Woodruff's granddaughter, Dorothy Wickenden, tells the story of their adventure in Nothing Daunted.

'The Last Werewolf' Reinvents A Hairy Myth

Jake Marlowe is cultured, dashing and full of quotable insights. And at 200 years old, he's just discovered he's the last of his kind — werewolf, that is. Glen Duncan imagines a race on the brink of extinction in The Last Werewolf.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., is the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University.

What It Means To Be 'Black In Latin America'

Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks at the cultural legacy of African slaves brought to Latin America.

Understanding Why Students Love 'Getting Wasted'

In Getting Wasted, Ohio University professor Thomas Vander Ven asks why Americans have come to see college and drinking as synonymous.

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