This week we review Best of Vegan by Kim-Julie Hansen, named for Hansen's community-based online platform, and "happily,... contains veganized recipes as well as those developed without a thought for ersatz animal products"; The Half Known Life, in which Pico Iyer "deploy[s] his observant eye and elegant prose" in search of the answer to the question, "What kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict...."; and Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin's The Universe in You, "a brilliant companion to his Your Place in the Universe," here looking inward, where the other looked outward. Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Julia Cameron--who launched a movement with The Artist's Way 30 years ago--discusses Write for Life and the strategies she recommends for daily work on a writing project.