It's the season for warm family brunches, abundant floral arrangements and Hallmark cards. Odes to motherhood in the form of honey-hued poems and appreciative essays seem to fill the bookstore,...
It's the season for warm family brunches, abundant floral arrangements and Hallmark cards. Odes to motherhood in the form of honey-hued poems and appreciative essays seem to fill the bookstore,...
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid," wrote Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey. And those who have denied...
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid," wrote Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey. And those who have denied...
When Katherine Boo won the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant 10 years ago, the citation praised her as one of the most influential journalists writing about contemporary social conditions. It noted...
When Katherine Boo won the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant 10 years ago, the citation praised her as one of the most influential journalists writing about contemporary social conditions. It noted...
For those made glum by the campaign battle for the White House, a backward glance might afford a clearer view of the present. The 34th president was written off as...
For those made glum by the campaign battle for the White House, a backward glance might afford a clearer view of the present. The 34th president was written off as...
Great books — not the ones rushed off the factory floor but the finely crafted, original works of imagination — can find an audience, if it finds a champion. In...
Great books — not the ones rushed off the factory floor but the finely crafted, original works of imagination — can find an audience, if it finds a champion. In...