Allure of Deceit

  Reading is a solitary activity that offers a sure guide to navigating society and our many relationships.  In The Uncommon Reader by Ala...

In The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman, Ivy Jacob grows up in Boston, beautiful and wild, spoiled yet neglected. An unintended pregnancy pr...

Our choices and assessments of books expose us as much as those whom we judge. Not so long ago, t hese pages noted : "If  readers a...

Practiced in making choices, readers may be more content than non-readers, as suggested by David Hume in 1742: The good or ill accidents...

An 1851 entry from the diary of Linka Preus of Norway, the night before her wedding: "A human being is a free and independent creatur...

Anyone who loves newspapers hopes that Jeff Bezos can innovate and revive interest in the Washington Post, the newspaper industry and da...

Illiteracy weakens societies: " it’s a mistake to think we can glide through modern life unaffected by others’ struggles with lit...

A stack of old books from the library wait in the corner of my bedroom. I wonder how many people have read them before me. Did the books cha...