Thirteen for Halloween

Or, how one book critic thinks he can out-spook the Scholar

Spooktacular Books

Thirteen tales it would be monstrous of you to miss

Ten Neglected Classics

Ten Worst Opening Lines

List, List, O List!

A Response to David Handlin’s “One Hundred Best American Novels”

One Hundred Best American Novels, 1770 to 1985 (a Draft)

A reading enthusiast’s list

Summer Reading List

Beach reading, Scholar style

The Best of the Bard

Our favorite passages from Shakespeare’s works

Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

Summer Daze

Books we recommend for warm-weather days

Father Figures

Fourteen books to celebrate Father’s Day

Please, Sir, I Want Some More

Charles Dickens died 150 years ago today

Let Me Tell You a Story

Audiobooks to disappear into

Vegetables, mainly cherry tomatoes, sliced red onion, garlic, and basil, spread out on a blue background. Two wooden forks are crossed among the vegetables.

11 Culinary Books with Words to Savor

Food writing so good, you can practically taste it

Ready for a Beatdown?

The cathartic power of drumming

10 Classic Books for Cooped-Up Kids

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