Most people don’t think about hormones. But when you develop resistance to
your seven major metabolic hormones—cortisol, thyroid, testosterone, growth
hormone, leptin, insulin, and estrogen—your body adjusts by ultimately
slowing down your metabolism. And a slower metabo...
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In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine. An
intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and
human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors. “Lina
Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges fro...
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“If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic
life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest
for art, meaning, and a place to call home.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All
the Light We Cannot See
Rob Spillman, the award-win...
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A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey
autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four
single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot
Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting...
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Our modern diet, high in low-quality carbohydrates, is damaging our
bodies—producing a constant overload of sugar in our bloodstream that clogs
up our arteries and piles hidden fat into our internal organs. The result has
been a doubling in the number of type 2 diabetics...
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Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last
seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She
abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears
the news and, against the wishes of her boyf...
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Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new collection of poems (2010–2014)
seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda’s
Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver’s poetic guides to the natural world,
Le Guin’s latest give voice to objects that may not s...
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