Reading and Writing

Can books compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor? They can and do, if the books are by authors who were... Born this week: Iv...

In case you had better things to do last Friday, here are excerpts of some of the book panels that took place that day, starting with a titl...

School's over? Not the school of life! Want to pass the school of life with flying colors? You'll need a library: "Nobody gradu...

Something on your chest, but you cannot quite figure out what it is? There is a cure: books. A library is "The medicine chest of the so...

"And yet I had not been wrong, perhaps, after all, in sacrificing not only the vain pleasures of the world but the real pleasure of fri...

"You can live several lives" [and not be a cat] simply by reading a book. Start with books by authors who were... Born this week: ...

Books don't move you? Perhaps you haven't found just the right books yet. It's not too late to feel the pain, or as Kafka said: ...