Baseball

“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

Culture and Criticism

From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

Donors Choose and Contests

Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.

Stories, True and Otherwise

Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.

The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

The Vine: March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015 · 8 Comments
The Vine: March 4, 2015

I am remembering only a small part of a book I recently read, which is making it difficult to Google.

The Vine: February 25, 2015
February 25, 2015 · 10 Comments
The Vine: February 25, 2015

I am trying to find a book I read when I was a kid (maybe a teen) in the ’70s or ’80s. It was old then, though.

The Vine: February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015 · 36 Comments
The Vine: February 18, 2015

Dog/family question!

The Vine: February 11, 2015
February 11, 2015 · 8 Comments
The Vine: February 11, 2015

I’ve been looking for a true crime novel that I remember reading about. Multiple searches have turned up nothing.

A Word From Our Sponsors: Indigo
February 9, 2015 · No Comment
A Word From Our Sponsors: Indigo

Nothing against flowers and/or chocolate for Valentine’s Day — but why not go with a lasts-forever, zero-calorie book from Indigo instead?

The Vine: February 4, 2015
February 4, 2015 · 52 Comments
The Vine: February 4, 2015

So, after being lucky enough to have a lovely wedding last month and a looong honeymoon, I am still dumb enough to have just one little bee in my bonnet that Will. Not. Die.

The Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: October Sky
February 2, 2015 · 8 Comments
The Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: <em>October Sky</em>

Reader Mike counts us down.

31/31: Beautiful Darling
January 31, 2015 · No Comment
31/31: <em>Beautiful Darling</em>

Beautiful Darling has a sweet nostalgic sadness to it, like its subject, the former James Slattery who became a Warhol-Factory “Superstar.”

30/31: The Imitation Game
January 30, 2015 · 5 Comments
30/31: <em>The Imitation Game</em>

“No, not that one, Nana; the other one, with Sherlock.”