They were cheap. They were fun. They made us feel smart. What was not to love? Responding to a column I wrote about “the greatest books you’ve never read,” two readers suggested that, thanks to ...

Most of us are generalists, who know -- or think we know -- a little bit about a lot of things. Although I can talk about the technical aspects of golf clubs, and the history of American popular music ...

For more than 30 years, Little Rock writer William Bryan Jones, Jr. -- known to friends and in early bylines as "Bill" -- has been embarked on a work of cultural anthropology‚ that of telling the ...

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of ...