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…
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is an author who confides in their reader, rather than family or friends. “I am a private person,” the writer, who identifies as male and uses the…
What Is a Conservative? To the Editor: There was something missing in George Will’s April 12 review of Andrew Bacevich’s collection “American Conservatism.” That something was any discussion of conservatism’s treatment of…
A writer I follow on Twitter recently put out a call for novels that distill a “sense of pure consciousness” onto the page, with little regard for scene or setting…
You might have the time but not the mental bandwidth for “Anna Karenina” right now, and that’s OK. In fact, it’s completely normal (even editors at the Book Review are…
Eight of the 10 most challenged books last year were based on L.G.B.T.Q. subjects or narratives, the American Library Association said in its annual ranking of books that were banned…
Abigail Thernstrom, a social scientist whose colorblind remedies for racial disparities in educational achievement, voting and employment elevated her from a former red-diaper baby into a leading skeptic of affirmative…
When my wife, Ann, gave me a food tour for my birthday on my first day in Athens a few years ago, I groaned inwardly. “Oh, great, thank you!” I…
The stay-at-home orders for millions of people across the world have radically changed how we spend our time. One activity that’s been largely untouched by the pandemic? Reading. What is…
“LETTERS ARE ABOVE all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose,” wrote the novelist and…
