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…
Nearly everyone knows Yogi Berra from his oft-quoted lines, with their circular truth (“It ain’t over till it’s over”) and their creative math (“Ninety percent of baseball is mental; the…
Image THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE Surviving the Crisis By Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac The first question to ask when reading “The Future We Choose” is, Who exactly is the “we” of…
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For most travelers nowadays, home is the only destination. Yet thanks to some imaginative podcasts, you can still explore the world. The following were selected because rather than focus on…
April is National Poetry Month. Even though writers and audiences can’t gather in person because of the coronavirus, verse is happening on Facebook or Zoom, in people’s notebooks and in…
PARIS — On a recent afternoon, by phone from her home in the suburbs, the French writer Annie Ernaux was describing her living room. “I’m sitting in my old armchair.…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Patricia Bosworth, who gave up acting for the writing life, turning her knowledge of the…
The day in 2015 that C Pam Zhang was laid off from her first job out of college, she celebrated with friends at the park, then promptly made plans to…
Harriet Glickman, who in 1968 persuaded Charles M. Schulz, the creator of “Peanuts,” to add an African-American character to his roster of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the…
