The name was meant to be ironic, but indie bookstores are thriving.

When Gertrude Stein (Stein) toured America, a rose was a rose was a mutual love.

Matthew B. Crawford, Ph.D can fix your Harley, but can he fix the American malaise?

The miracle of writing evaded the natives until one man made the leap.

Beyond “dark and stormy night,” “bad lit” contests made purple prose proliferate.

Dartmouth grads expected the usual boring commencement speaker. But Joseph Brodsky spoke about boredom itself, aka “your window on time.”

Born into a world of radios and Model T’s, he envisioned a fantastic future. And you can’t say he didn’t warn us.

Science used to be respected and trusted. What happened and how can we move beyond the BS and back to the facts?

Think it’s too late to do anything about global warming? Rebecca Solnit says, “think again.”

The Attic rides along with Yale historian Beverly Gage as she visits American history sites from sea to shining sea.

When a hurried America needed answers, three books helped us put on the brakes.

With dictionaries endangered, Stefan Fatsis offers a treat for fellow word lovers.

He came out of the darkness, left cognac and roses on Poe’s grave. Then disappeared. Who was he?

Along with writing classic science fiction, Isaac Asimov explained. . . everything!!!!

Truman Capote’s Christmas tale has been told and re-told but how much was memory and how much was fiction?

Broken at the seams, Hemingway stumbled upon an old trunk and brought his Paris back to life.