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Lucy Maud Montgomery: From hat box novelist to Google Doodle tributeOn the Canadian author's birthday, Google honors Lucy Maud Montgomery's famous novel 'Anne of Green Gables.'聽
What to read while thinking of Paris? Pick up Montaigne, mon cher.Montaigne didn鈥檛 come to any clear conclusions about man鈥檚 place in the cosmos or the dimensions of his soul, but his essays gave us something almost as good: the story of one man sitting alone, thinking for himself, refusing to let some craven orthodoxy do his thinking for him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates packed the house at Davidson College talking on raceCoates 鈥� journalist, commentator, and聽National Book Award-winner 鈥� is seen by many as the voice of his generation on black America.
'Sam Phillips' chronicles the life of the man who incubated rock 'n rollPhillips dreamed of capturing 'the excitement from the music in the cotton fields.'
Are you truly thankful for the good books you already have?On Thanksgiving Day, after the dishes are cleared, scan your own home library and remind yourself how lucky you are to have so much great writing at your fingertips.
'The Gratitude Diaries' explains why a grateful heart is a happy heartAn author takes a hard look at gratitude and finds her life transformed.
Mark Twain's turkey tale 鈥� perhaps the funniest in American literatureWhat Twain eventually learned, after an interminable time on the trail, is that turkeys have a genius for feigning injury.
'S.P.Q.R.' offers a learned, intimate view of ancient RomeThe survival of what Romans wrote about themselves gives Mary Beard鈥檚 project its heft.
Bestselling books the week of 11/24/15, according to IndieBound* Created by the聽American Booksellers Association, the IndieBound bestseller list uses data from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country to determine which books are flying fastest off the shelves on any given week.聽
'This Old Man' displays the charms of New Yorker writer Roger AngellAngell moves with agility between humor, pathos, and playful metaphor, often within the same essay.
'Paradise of the Pacific': a transporting immersion in Hawai鈥榠鈥檚 historySusanna Moore details the tenacity with which Hawai鈥榠鈥檚 native peoples held on to their way of life in the face of colonial exploits.
How the Eiffel Tower outlasted its criticsAuthor Jill Jonnes on Paris landmark鈥檚 evolution into an enduring symbol.
'Lafayette in the Somewhat United States' brings the French founding father to lifeSarah Vowell trains her irreverent historical imagination on the revolutionary ally who made the American Revolution a global struggle.
Does reading self-help books make us more stressed?Does reading self-help books make a reader more stressed out and depressed 鈥� or are stressed, depressed people simply more likely to read self-help books? A study suggests either could be true.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson take prizes at the 2015 National Book AwardsCoates' 'Between the World and Me' and Johnson's 'Fortune Smiles' won the nonfiction and fiction awards, respectively, at this year's National Book Awards. Johnson's work is the second short story collection in two years to win the fiction prize.
'The Big Green Tent' wraps history and literature into a very Russian storyWith both intimacy and cosmic scope, Russian novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya weaves an engaging tale of a group of cold war-era Soviet friends.- How well do you know Greek mythology?
Allusions to Greek mythology crop up everywhere from Sigmund Freud's theories to the "Hunger Games" books. Test and refresh your knowledge of this infinitely fertile material with this quiz.
'The Spectacle of Skill' reminds us how dazzling critic Robert Hughes could beHughes wrote many kinds of things in a career that spanned four decades 鈥� history, commentary, criticism, journalism 鈥� but his primary goal was always the same: to entertain, especially while he was educating.
Bestselling books the week of 11/17/15, according to IndieBound* Created by the聽American Booksellers Association, the IndieBound bestseller list uses data from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country to determine which books are flying fastest off the shelves on any given week. This week, some of the bestselling titles flagged by the stores that report their data to the ABA include "Man V. Nature" by Diane Cook and "The Fall" by Diogo Mainardi. Check out the full聽IndieBound聽list below.
How friends and an oil magnate saved ShakespeareAuthor Andrea Mays explains how close the world came to losing Shakespeare in her new book 'Millionaire & the Bard.'
