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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...