Living as an introvert in a world that likes loud voices can feel hard. Many books promise to fix you. But you do not need fixing. The right books help…
Look. I have wasted a lot of money on self-help books. Some of them sit on my shelf. Unread. Some I read but forgot the next day. A few actually…
Have you ever pondered what life was like in 19th century America? The boulevards were full of horse carriages, towns were little, and life moved gradually. Chronicled fiction books set…
In “The Baby-Sitters Club,” the charming Netflix adaptation of Ann M. Martin’s wildly popular children’s book series, there’s a witch. Not the cauldron-stirring, spell-casting sort of witch. This isn’t that…
NINE SHINY OBJECTSBy Brian Castleberry In the summer of 1947, a private pilot crossing the Cascade Mountains in Washington State reported seeing nine shiny objects in the sky. The sighting led…
IntroductionDEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE President Barack Obama faced a momentous choice. By the summer of 2016, he knew that Russia was interfering in America’s upcoming election. He also knew that Vladimir Putin,…
Jim Carrey is not doing well at all. At the start of the novel “Memoirs and Misinformation,” we find Carrey, its protagonist, in the midst of an existential crisis, crushed by…
It’s January 1986. What do you do if you’re a 12-year-old girl who feels invisible and longs to be a space shuttle commander? In Erin Entrada Kelly’s WE DREAM OF…
There are so many upsetting things about the assault Lacy Crawford suffered in 1990, when she was 15 and a junior at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, but one…
White Whale To the Editor: Carl Safina’s essay in the June 14 issue, “Melville’s Warning,” brought back memories of my graduate school class on American authors. I had never read Melville’s masterpiece;…
During a normal week, Jordan Pavlin, the editorial director at Knopf, seldom ate at her desk. Depending on the day, she might be meeting with literary agents over lunch, catching…
“If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston in her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Throughout this country’s…
