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The Fox News chief political anchor recounts challenges faced by Ulysses S. The Washington Post journalists detail the dangers and challenges during the transition to the Biden presidency. The congressman from California describes risks to our democracy and the resurgence of autocracy. The award-winning actor reflects on his career, Italian-American heritage, meals and mishaps. If you really want to understand a culture, you do it through the food — and through how meals are shared.

This book — complete with recipes — will tell you how that food got to the city in the first place, and will remind you why certain dishes have become staples of American cuisine, even though they originated an ocean away.

Of all the bridges that have become iconized in New York City, the Verrazano-Narrows bridge is perhaps not the most well-known.

But, spanning more than two-and-a-half miles and linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with New Jersey, it is the longest suspension bridge in the United States. So why do you care, you might ask? Basil E. Join Goodreads. New York Times list of the best English Nonfiction books.

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Pauline Kael. Sebastian Junger Goodreads Author. Rationality is in critically short supply at a time when humanity faces its greatest challenges yet, argues Pinker, a Harvard cognitive psychologist. Viking, Sept. Dasani was a precocious and spunky year-old with limitless potential when Elliott, a Times investigative journalist, first met her at a Fort Greene homeless shelter in That encounter led to a five-part series shadowing Dasani as she navigated child poverty in New York City.

For this book, Elliott immersed herself in the lives of Dasani and her family for eight years, at times slipping past security guards at the shelter. Random House, Oct. This book is an ambitious attempt to wrestle with the Marvel Comics universe, a web so expansive that almost no one has bothered to read all of its half-million pages and counting.

No one, that is, besides Wolk, who has pored over yellowing originals from at garage sales, abandoned copies at his local Starbucks and even collections on show at Burning Man.