Two twentieth-century masters of the bildungsroman were James Joyce (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Ernest Hemingway (The Nick Adams Stories). Now the literary world has Joyce and Hemingway’s twenty-first century successor... Read More

Lexy Durant was drop-dead gorgeous, ambitious, and successful. She inspired envy in those she met, making the fortunate person who stood next to her feel woefully inadequate. Her sense of style was the epitome of perfection, and those... Read More

In Jennie Walker’s The Rules of Play, everything’s a game. From cricket, card tricks, and crossword puzzles, to motherhood, marriage, adultery, and cooking, each conversation and every action is narrated play-by-play, with special... Read More

While glass ceilings that keep women from rising to the top and “leering professors” and “sexist bosses” are still a concern, women are making progress in the working world. Richard Whitmire, an education reporter, has been... Read More

Most people will require anesthesia for a medical procedure in their lifetime; whether it’s full anesthesia for surgery, regional anesthesia for the birth of a child, or local anesthesia for a tooth extraction. Every year, more than... Read More