Sometimes, when you’ve had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, you need a one-two punch combination of your favorite things to cheer you up. That’s when you need to draw upon the magical marriage of cereal and books—two of life’s greatest things, paired together for a perfect pick-me-up. What could be better than a […]
Summer is the time for learning new things (winter is a bad time for this—no one wants to learn anything new when the sun is only up for four hours a day), and this summer’s best new releases in history promise to teach you about almost anything you want to know. Interested in the Romans? […]
For any reader worth her salt, the road to courtship is paved with books. Books you loan, books you borrow, shelves of books you scan for red flags and common ground the first time you’re invited in. Romantic histories can be told as a series of literary stepping stones, from the cute boy in preschool […]
I always feel like somebody’s watching me. Unlike Rockwell, however, I know who that somebody is. It’s Chuck Klosterman. Klosterman (you may know him as Kris Kringle’s understudy in Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town) is that most wonderful kind of essayist, journalist, and critic, who can take the gobbledygook that’s hiding in the recesses of […]