This semester, I got to sit in on a colleague's class as he taught Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 , a graphic memoir from way before ou...

What I love about Buddhism: that Buddhists would not see this poem, by the 19th-century haiku poet Masaoka Shiki, as an insult or challenge ...

The optimist, the joke goes, sees the glass of milk and says, "It's half full." The pessimist sees the glass of milk and ...

When The Secret came out in 2006, I had already been dabbling in self-help lore. I was mainly interested in time management; my family and ...

I've now read five of the over twenty-five novels that Roth has written: the coarsely sexual  (not a bad thing, btw)   Portnoy's Com...

A little while ago, a friend of mine asked her Facebook friends to help her choose between the iPhone on AT&T and an Android phone on T-...

It only took a year and a half, but I finally finished Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day . It's brilliant: virtually every one of its...