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Elizabeth Bastos

Elizabeth Bastos has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and writes at her blog 19th-Century Lady Naturalist. Follow her on Twitter: @elizabethbastos

The Tale of The Dueling Neurosurgeons Will Teach You Gross Things

The subtitle of Sam Keane’s The Tale of The Dueling Neurosurgeons is “The History of The Human Brain As Revealed By ...

Best Parenting Books?

Since I have lost the manuals that came with my babies, when the stork brought them from the cabbage patch, I ...

Top Ten Graphic Novels I Should Read?

I was oblivious to the graphic novel genre for three decades, even as my friends in the ’80s were discovering ...

Genres Across The Lifespan

Psychologists divide the lifespan into parts: infancy, childhood, adolescence, middle age, late middle age, and seniority. I am that so-called ...

Kentucky Derby: The Greatest Two Minutes in American Sports, Drink, and Pie

The Kentucky Derby, the “greatest two minutes in sports” is Saturday, May 3. I hope you read that in ALL CAPS because ...

How To Be A Modern Feminist

The French have a saying, “une femme d’un certain age,” a woman of a certain age, which, being ensconced like ...

Colum McCann’s DANCER and Books About Dance

Dance. You either read that as a noun or as an imperative verb. Either you have the itch in your ...

Anne Lamott’s World

Is there a writer who writes more clearly about the cracks in the vases of our lives than Anne Lamott? ...

100 Dogs Who Changed Civilization

  Four weeks ago we got a Bichon puppy. For the kids! we said. So they learn compassion! we said. ...

Happiness For People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking

Happiness For People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking is the subtitle of Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote which I picked up ...