Two new books, different in subject but oddly companionable in spirit, look past the surfaces of American storytelling and toward the forces that shape it -- some intimate, some atmospheric, some ...

It’s confession time; I’m an annotator (a person who adds explanatory or critical notes to a text) and often write in the margins of my own books to highlight passages I find challenging or that I ...

How should one read a book? Is it better to do it on paper or on a screen? Sitting on a couch or lying in a hammock? Fortified by tea or bourbon—or both? When it comes to absorbing literature, there ...

Nearly all readers keep a mental bucket list of books that seemingly everyone in the world loves, but that they themselves — secretly hanging heads in shame — have never quite gotten round to. I, for ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Welcome to The Scroll, a new column that checks in with your favorite writers, asking them to ...

NORTH ADAMS — In July 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne struck out on the road, traveling west. His destination? North Adams. He arrived in North Adams — then the north village of Adams, as the communities ...

This year brings Latter-day Saints back to the Book of Mormon in our “Come, Follow Me” curriculum, so I want to highlight some new resources that can help. Actually, I should say that they not only ...