From "adamant" (in a speech by Barack Obama) to "yammer" (in Glenn Stout's introduction to Best American Sports Writing 2004), this collection of 100 words and quotations has been assembled by ... (Read More)
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"When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state' for English class, and fifty ... (Read More)
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"In this penetrating theological memoir, [Kathleen] Norris (The Cloister Walk) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics. Norris is ... (Read More)
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The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West over two millennia—the foundation of our education, the terminology of science and law, and until recent decades, the ... (Read More)
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By 1976, when she died at age 85, Agatha Christie had become the world's most popular author. So prolific was her output—66 crime novels, 20 plays, six romance novels under a pen name, and 150 short ... (Read More)
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Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic Democracy in America, published in 1835, offered not ... (Read More)
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As she did with The Sweet Life and Off the Beaten Path, illustrator Laura Stoddart again illuminates a choice selection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens—this time on ... (Read More)
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In this collection of stories that carry us from the excitement and anticipation of courtship to the deep connection of lifelong commitment, the founder of NPR's StoryCorps oral history project ... (Read More)
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"If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic ... that we'd hardly notice," opined Chris ... (Read More)
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New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen, declares former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes. In this grand tour of New York's dining culture, illustrated ... (Read More)
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"The Art of Making Money, by Jason Kersten, tells the story of Art Williams, a maverick counterfeiter from Chicago.... The heart of this wonderful book, which reads like the script for a caper ... (Read More)
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For a bibliophile, there are few things more telling about the book at hand than an epigraph. Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs, or poems that appear just before Chapter One do ... (Read More)
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