Reading is a solitary activity, not a lonely one. I was a shy kid who loved books in part because they felt like a form of ...

Last February, I saw a concert that brought fresh meaning to the cliché “my soul left my body.” In a packed room at Radio ...

In 1989 Andrew Wylie, a literary agent, set his sights on Philip Roth. (“Every time I turned around, there was this guy,” the ...