Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Picking a book from a bookshelf is like walking into an airport with a loaded credit card and a packed suitcase and picking a destination off of the departures board—except that this departures board includes far more places than exist under our sun, and you can completely skip the jet lag. These eight paperback favorites will […]

There are novels, and there are anthropological studies, and then there are books that are a curious mixture of the two. Sometimes, they are fictional stories that explore a modern society or subculture with an almost scientific rigor; sometimes they’re memoirs or nonfiction books that blur the lines between fact and fiction or that inspire […]

Reading when you’re a kid is the best, because everything is fascinating and new, and your heart is still fresh and unsullied by the wear and tear of commuting and filling out tax returns and waiting in line for coffee two hours each morning. Who wouldn’t want to go back to the days when the whole world felt magic, […]

Dear Literary Lady, My family won’t be able to get together for the holidays this year, so I’ll be spending it alone. Any suggestions for books to read when you’re missing your loved ones? – L.Y., Atlanta, GA Dear L.Y., I grew up far away from my family, so this is a question that I’m […]