Literary Reflections

This month, our editors offer emphatic endorsements for a variety of books that feel like a learning experience — in a good way.

I hope that most people perusing this list are doing so while slouched in a comfy chair at the beach house during a sleepy stretch of the afternoon. August is…

It’s not a Guinness record — no ten-foot fingernails or human cannonball. No smallest waist, or longest legs, or 15,000 Barbie dolls. Guinness wouldn’t blink at me. Still, in quiet…

Even if we are in summer reading mode, there’s no reason we need settle for fluff or pulp.

Children’s literature is full of long yet pleasant journeys that feel at once liberating, exciting and cozy.

My reading in recent weeks has been quite the mixed bag, which seems in accordance with the spirit of summer.

Our Father’s Day reading list features books that remind us of fathers in general, but our fathers in particular.

When I charged myself to meditate on literature appropriate to Mother’s Day, the first book that popped into my head was Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening.

My daughter just turned sixteen months old and I’ve left her at home and I’m in a library typing this: I’m almost 39 and there is a thirty-inch tall drooling…

This reading list is, in its modest way celebrating National Poetry Month — not with poetry, but with titles that bring a uniquely penetrating voice to a difficult, unusual or…

Every genre finds inspiration in the gaps between generations, and this month, our editors are inspired by generational stories from the fictional to the anthropological to the theatrical.