Lauren F. Winner

We suspect that penitence is usually done best when one joins in a community.

Why I still use cookbooks.

Explicating a long-lost Civil War painting.

A comic novel about the “quotidian resentments” of married life.

A memoir of friendship, grief, and dog-walking.

A first-rate account of the Dreyfus Affair.

A critique of the Tea Party’s version of American history.

A splendid annotated edition of Jane Austen’s most famous novel.

A diverting ramble on the history of the finger.

The pleasures of (re-) reading Barbara Holland.