America's literary highways may be plenty crowded with middle-aged runaways fleeing lives that increasingly feel like a bad fit. But Ben Markovits adds a moving tale to the collection.

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The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the panic of the days the American economy broke. Leaves you wondering -- what is ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Karen Kistler [email protected] While researching family ancestry and genealogy, Eliott Secrest learned about ...

In his introduction to this collection, Liam Hannaway notes that 'Talking Heads' is a 'bracing read, as one would expect from ...

I have read many craft books, taken gobs of writing classes and read all manner of literature. In my personal time, I tend ...

Léitheoir: 'The Traveller’s Tale' by Ray Bassett reviewed.

The Norwich author’s third novel combines historical figures with fictional ones to delve into a midcentury mystery involving a Chicago celebrity journalist.

Scientist, biochemist and a historian and philosopher of science, Harriet Rix presents trees as agents of change.