Food Fights
The short, but dense, Something to Chew On serves up no-nonsense, stimulating fare over a range of food controversies, from GMOs to weight-loss and world hunger. Digest it if you dare.
By Ben Fulton
Drawing From the Welles
The majesty, intelligence, pettiness and prowess of the film world's famous boy genius and might-have-been is revealed—appetite and all—in the tape recorded pages of Henry Jaglom's My Lunches With Orson.
Rigor vs. Rigor Mortis
In The Smartest Kids In The World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley is that rare scribe deft enough to move from personal anecdote, to policy, case study, and back again.
Ship To It
Rose George drenches the reader in her ocean-wide chronicle of sea-faring commerce, past and present, but her book's meandering passages warn you in advance to don a lifejacket.