Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. My favorite passage is about the intimacy of acquaintances. It’s a scene ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last week, I invited readers to send in the literary passages that most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Justin Cronin has deservedly hit the best-seller list with “The Passage,” one of the summer’s big books. The first volume in a planned trilogy, the story is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – While analytical, mathematically driven economists don't seem to have much in common with their abstract literary colleagues, a Purdue University professor's new book contends ...

Joe Gores Reading from "A Time of Predators." 2 p.m. "M" Is for Mystery and More, 86 E. Third Ave., San Mateo. (650) 401-8077. Ben Katchor Presentation and book signing by the author of "The Life of a ...

Last week, I invited readers to send in the literary passages that most spoke to them and shaped them. Here’s Jen, with a passage from Dostoevsky: I first read The Brothers Karamazov when I was 17, on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, I invited readers to send in the literary passages that most spoke to them and shaped them. Here’s Jen, with a passage ...