It has been a long time since my hometown of Lewiston, Maine has had a bookstore, so when Quiet City Books  opened a few years ago, I was ...

I remember heading down to a basement in one of the buildings just off campus, maybe still a little dehydrated from the game, definitely st...

You read as who you are now. Sure, you read with your accumulated knowledge of literature, with your awareness of the arc of human history, ...

When I create canons in my head (you all do that, too, right? Build hypothetical syllabi  as a way to organize all the books that are sp...

There were a lot of antifa at the rally in Boston a couple of weekends ago. I saw them as I walked from the T station to the meeting plac...