An unsung remedy for the long-term care crisis.
MORE PERFECT UNIONS:
The American Search for Marital Bliss.
By Rebecca L. Davis.
Harvard Univ. Press. 317 pp. $29.95
Christina Asquith's personal experience informs her review of a book about women in the Middle East.
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould had a well-earned reputation for eccentricity, as one Steinway & Sons employee discovered to his chagrin.
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DNA analysis now suggests King Tut might have died from malaria, but should we dig him up just to satisfy our curiosity?
A GREAT UNRECORDED HISTORY:
A New Life of E. M. Forster.
By Wendy Moffat.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 416 pp. $32.50
PARADISE BENEATH HER FEET:
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East.
By Isobel Coleman.
Random House. 309 pp. $26