Books for Quarantining
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Richard Powers’ The Overstory is a big long read, as massive as the redwoods that he chronicles so lovingly. It’s easy to put aside, which I did for about 9 months after it won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for
On Book Clubbing
Who better than the NYTimes for book recommendations, right? As long as I can remember, poring over the Book Review section of the massive Sunday paper was a ritual and now, one of my favorite weekly listens is the paper’s …
Anya Kamenetz: On Education and Parenting in the Digital Age
Anya Kamenetz writes about education for NPR and has her finger on the pulse of how technology is impacting the classroom. As the mother of two young girls, she’s also immersed in the practical, imperfect struggle of raising kids in …
2018: Time to Re-Consider our Device Addiction
2018 is shaping up to be a year in which we seriously review our relationship with smartphones. We are encouraged by recent news that institutional investors in Apple are pressing the company to consider how they design the devices, looking …
Scott Galloway is a Genius
Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys
Some topics are trickier than others to discuss with kids, and broaching the unavoidable topic of puberty tops the list. A time-honored tradition is to purchase a good book on the subject and leave it in the bathroom where it …
Watching Gender from Common Sense
A new report released by Common Sense this week helps parents think about the stereotypes that their kids are exposed when watching television and films.
Many of the ideas are familiar – as adults, we understand the age-old limitations of …
Summer Reading 2017
Time to stuff the book bag – for the plane, for the beach, for the backyard chaise. Here’s what we have loved recently, and can recommend.
Fiction
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is a short, elegant novel that puts you …
