The links above will guide you to specific books and topics, but for a smorgasbord of news and recent posts, take a look below.
A wholesome loaf
We’re not the first people to need a better daily bread. A loaf that is 100% whole grain and suitable for both toast and sandwiches. A loaf that is anyone can make, easily. As World [...]
Sylvia Plath’s ghostly presence
I don’t know if Ted Hughes thanked his wife, Sylvia Plath, for typing in any of his acknowledgements, but he should have. She typed, and typed, and typed. She typed submissions for the poetry competitions [...]
Cooking through a crisis
After I published the post "To Cook A Wolf - Baking with M F K Fisher," the cookbook platform ckbk suggested we collaborate in promoting an idea we both clearly believe: that home cooking can [...]
Foraging & fiddleheads
Long before lockdown began in Massachusetts, I’d been laying in supplies at the urging of my son in Beijing, who’d already been through it. I started planning a vegetable garden, but was a little concerned [...]
The Social Life of Reading
I was involved in a forum conversation about print and digital books last week, which inspired me to take this photo of some of the books I was given by the family of a British [...]
The Love of a Good Woman
This is my account of the first day at Princeton, 2 January 2020, published in Time Present and in the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Volume 3, edited by John D. Morgenstern (General Editor), Julia [...]