Reading and Writing

"Students may begin their medical school careers riding on a cloud of altruism and goodwill, but it’s not long before the grueling sche...

“Love of books is like any other kind of love,” Fadiman said. “It takes different forms.” There are “courtly lovers” of books, who treat boo...

Q: "What exactly were you doing in the U.S.? What is it called? Spying?" A: "It’s the same thing the American special service...

A miniature spying insect: "Next time a pesky insect lands on you take a close look at it before you swat it away because you could be ...

We read fewer novels. "It's not that the quality of fiction has gone downhill. It hasn't ... Our attitude towards entertainment...

"I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure, just as heretofore, when letters [literature] ...

Is it possible that waning interest in literary fiction is the result of the army of Borg writers driven by a single collective thought, pr...