Let’s dive right in. Do you ever feel like the best companion for a quiet afternoon is a well-worn book and a cup of tea? Many of the intelligent introverts I’ve worked with swear by dedicated ...

Seasoned hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes shortly before reaching the end of the Appalachian trail. A Maine game warden works to find Valerie, as does a septuagenarian armchair detective in a ...

Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams returned to Earth on March 18, following a nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). After splashing down in ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

Xavier University of Louisiana Professor Wendy A. Gaudin is the granddaughter of travelers to the West Coast. She has written a book about the experience of growing up in the shadow of her ancestors’ ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...

In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital technology, surveillance capitalism and her family’s immigrant experience. In “Close to Home,” Thor ...

But sometimes I want something that really makes me feel. That’s where these 33 sad books come into play. From a heartfelt novel that’s a testament to how grief is anything but a linear process to a ...