Elizabeth Bastos

We talk about the Kondo Method in The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up & Empire of Things, connecting minimalism with a desire to be surrounded by things.

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

For the first time in my adult life I live in a house. Granted, I don’t own it; I live ...

Economist Marc Levinson’s The Box: How The Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is well outside ...

There are writers who can write a plot line like nobody’s business, who pull you along like a fish on ...

Earlier this year James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird won The Morning New‘s Tournament of Books. In addition it has won my ...

My grandfather was an expert story teller. He was good at reading aloud and made arrangements with his voice for ...

Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer at The New Yorker, writes about science like a tall cool glass of water. Her writing, ...

My parents, in their 70s, moved in with me. Then they moved out. I wrote about it here. It was a ...

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

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

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

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

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

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