Rachel Carson

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

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Discoveries

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Making Supper Safe Why We've Lost Trust in Our Food and How We Can Get It Back Ben Hewitt Rodale: 265 pp., $24.99 The statistics are shocking: "More than 200,000 Americans are sickened by food every day, and each year 325,000 of us will be...

Al Boeke dies at 88; 'father' of Northern California's Sea Ranch

2011-11-20 00:00:00

Al Boeke, the developer-architect whose vision spawned Sea Ranch, the sprawling Northern California coastal enclave known for elegantly rustic homes built to harmonize with a breathtaking natural landscape, died Nov. 8 at his home there. He was 88 and had...

Reading L.A.: Marc Reisner's 'Cadillac Desert'

2011-06-29 21:33:26

Book review: 'The View from Lazy Point' by Carl Safina

2011-02-06 00:00:00

The View from Lazy Point A Natural Year in an Unnatural World Carl Safina Henry Holt: 416 pp., $30 "The View from Lazy Point" is a naturalist's notebook, a record of a year at Carl Safina's home on the Sound side of eastern Long Island, north of...

L.A. names school after Al Gore -- but will students be safe?

2010-09-06 16:35:08

Reading L.A.: Richard G. Lillard on the growth machine and its discontents

2011-03-24 16:33:09

Food books, a feast of ideas

2010-06-20 00:00:00

There's a Calvinist streak marbling the fat of any good American eater: One hand giveth and the other taketh away. I should. I shouldn't. Pleasure and pain. I want it but I shouldn't have it. This is a good time to reflect on just how American our...

Ed Begley Jr.: Big green man

2010-01-23 00:00:00

I once tried to pick up Ed Begley Jr. Before your mind dives for the gutter, it was 2004, not long after Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor, and I rented a Hummer to write about whether it was all that its most famous fancier believed it to be. I...

John McPhee's new book gets personal

2010-02-28 00:00:00

There's a fault line opening in John McPhee. After 28 books and countless essays, he is giving us, bit by bit, a more personal sense of who he is. In a recent, beautiful piece for the New Yorker, he combined an essay on pickerel with memories of his...

Artist Bruce Nauman skywrites over Pasadena

2009-09-17 08:53:20

'Mad Men': 'Seven Twenty Three'

2009-09-28 04:34:15

Gov. Martin O'Malley joins William C. Dennison (center) of the University of Maryland and Bruce Michael (right) of the natural resources department on the Rachel Carson .

2009-05-11 00:00:00