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…
Sentiment has been a foundation of writing for centuries, capturing hearts with stories of cherish, misfortune, and yearning. From the slow-burning pressure of period shows to clearing adore stories that…
Teens love an excellent mystery—the fun of fixing a puzzle, the suspense of surprising twists, and the satisfaction of the truth. Whether your youngster is an avid reader or simply…
In the winter of 2004, Sarah Stewart Johnson, then a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was on a field trip in the desert east of California’s Sierra…
Richard Gelles, a prominent sociologist, had been one of the nation’s foremost defenders of family preservation, the practice of reuniting biological parents with their children even if they had abused…
Brad Watson, whose short stories and novels — including one book inspired by a great-aunt’s anatomical anomaly — came to life largely on the Southern Gulf Coast of his birth,…
There’s a lot you could say about Edmund White: He is the paterfamilias of queer literature, he witnessed the Stonewall riots, he literally wrote the book on gay sex. Not…
The “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome by the Trojan refugee Aeneas, is so influential that T.S. Eliot once described it as “the classic of all Europe.” Shadi Bartsch,…
If you want to sell books during a pandemic, it turns out that one of the best places to do it is within easy reach of eggs, milk and diapers. When…
HONEY AND VENOMConfessions of an Urban BeekeeperBy Andrew Coté295 pp. Ballantine. $27. I will never eat bananas near a beehive. The mere thought is enough to set lively scenes from Coté’s…
In early April, at the height of the pandemic lockdown, Gianpiero Petriglieri, an Italian business professor, suggested on Twitter that being forced to conduct much of our lives online was…
Though some people have knocked out an entire short story in a single sitting, it’s more realistic to see writing a story not as an inspiration-fueled creative binge but as…
