Jul 8th, 2008 · Guan Ai — "loving care" in Chinese — is a boarding school in a poor, tiny village. Though it lacks frills, staff at Guan Ai has made an effort to foster warmth and creativity, and it is a refuge from the competitive environment at traditional schools.
May 28th, 2008 · When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again — at the age of 80 — guess who found himself sorting through the personals? In Assisted Loving, Morris chronicles the search for Dad's new Ms. Right — and his own misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.
Aug 22nd, 2007 · Cleveland journalist Connie Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2005; in 2006, her congressman husband ran for the U.S. Senate, and Schultz took a sabbatical to help him campaign. Her book about that time is . . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man.
Jun 11th, 2007 · On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage in the landmark Loving v. Virginia ruling. A lawyer who argued the case remembers the couple at its heart, and an interracial couple in Virginia reflects on their life today.
Dec 15th, 2005 · Books for Students of Writing, Language and Life December 15, 2005 · The gift of beautiful prose, given to someone on the edge of loving words and their arrangements, is an invaluable present, writes commentator and novelist Susan Straight. She shares some of the titles she'll be giving this year.
Nov 2nd, 2005 · Parisienne food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier adapts a Moroccan celebratory pie to create a seaonal pear tart. At once traditional and original, it's easy to prepare and makes a lovely presentation.
Jul 11th, 2005 · The graduation ceremony at the Moscow Humanitarian University is lovely and moving in the way all graduations are. But it also focuses on the best and the brightest of the younger generation in Russia, their aspirations, political leanings, and their feelings about democracy.
Jun 29th, 2005 · This is a loving look at a summer spot that's been cherished by generations of East Coast families, written by a Vineyard veteran, says NPR book editor Karen Grigsby Bates.