I was not raised in a family of cooks. My parents grew up in the Midwest, in the second half…
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Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers…
New Year’s resolutions are penny-ante prayers. You are this way, but you hope to be that way. You used to…
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In a wide-ranging interview, Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, the director of the National Institutes of Health, discussed drug patents, trust…
This is the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity, aimed at bridging America’s God gulf. Previously, I’ve…
The many creative people who died this year built their wisdom over lives generously long or much too short, through…
The stories are juicy, but the volume is perhaps tied to a persistent question: Why do so many people believe…
It will be a long time before any of us understand what happened after Oct. 7, but it seems important…
When I go through students’ papers and flag the misplaced modifiers, note the clichés or explain that a 15-sentence paragraph…