Shakespeare was an anti-Semite,
The men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a co...
Medicine was religion. Religion was society. Society was medicine. Even economics were mixed up in there somewhere (you had to have or borrow enough money to buy a pig, or even a cow, in case someone...
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books,...
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.
We expect a wine of quality to demand something from us.
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?
The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to...
In Minneapolis, tires were slashed and windows smashed. A high school student getting off a bus was hit in the face and told to go back to China. A woman was kicked in the thighs, face, and kidneys, a...
The European immigrants who emerged from the Ford Motor Company melting pot came to the United States because they hoped to assimilate into mainstream American society. The Hmong came to the United St...
Now I only have one rule. Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay? Because I'm an American woman and they don't expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway.
I have never met a miserly wine lover.
After they returned home, a performed the ritual chant that accompanied his journey to the realm of the unseen. During the chant, the cow’s severed head was sitting on the Lees’ front stoop, welcomin...
To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall.
The Hmong community might not always meet the expectations of the American community, but it certainly knew how to run itself. Blia once drew me a flowchart-which was Cartesian-delineating how his org...