They were cheap. They were fun. They made us feel smart. What was not to love? Responding to a column I wrote about “the greatest books you’ve never read,” two readers suggested that, thanks to ...

Most of us are generalists, who know -- or think we know -- a little bit about a lot of things. Although I can talk about the technical aspects of golf clubs, and the history of American popular music ...

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of ...

“I just wanna say one quick thing, which in terms of comic books, one of my inspirations for Kiri, was the Classics Illustrated Comic Book of Green Mansions which is an old, old book and movie where ...