Books, Arts, and Culture

I was a teenager before I learned my father’s real name. During a trip back to Vietnam in my twenties, I discovered he had more children...

What is the point of communicating if no one is willing to hear you—if people talk over you, negate you, subtract you from whichever room you’re...

Ireland has an undeniable mystique, and Irish romance novels possess an extra special oomph. The gift of gab? The luck of the Irish? Whatever it is,...

There is growing research to show that book ownership can have a huge impact on a child’s life, even after they reach adulthood. I’ve written before...

My most recent quest to find you the very best books in translation took me to Eastern Africa, where I sought out literature from Burundi, Comoros,...

Did you know there are 1,700+ words invented by Shakespeare used in his plays and poems? Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says he did this “often by combining...