To the unhappy inevitability of death and taxes should be added one more grim reality: the misery of the teen years. Even in a society that is as woman-supportive as Minoan Crete, being a teenage girl just plain hurts. The author is an... Read More

Far from his home in Maine, a man shares his first night in a hotel room in the grim “worn to the bones” city of Moscow with a boy he has adopted from an orphanage. Under a midnight sun, the author finds “the beauty beyond the... Read More

Seventeen-year-old Varina Howell had these thoughts about the thirty-five-year-old widower she met in December, 1843: “He has a way of taking for granted that everybody agrees with him when he expresses an opinion, which offends me;... Read More

Good rule of thumb: if the title you’ve come up with sounds more explanatory than catchy (and more importantly, is more than four or five words, max), it’s probably a better subtitle,“ advises Peter Bowerman. In his third offering,... Read More

Pedagogical Permutation: Theories about formal education have existed since Socrates introduced his method and Plato founded his Academy. From these sages to the Latin-Christian ideals of Augustine; the Renaissance thinking of Descartes,... Read More