Five days a week, they hit the streets, running 13 different library shifts. Their clientele? People who are unhoused.

And when it’s better to hold back. You’ve completed a few half marathons, and your sights are set on a new goal: breaking two ...

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

This is tricky territory, and Sittenfeld handles it with nuance and aplomb. Jill is at first in disbelief that anyone — ...

If you want, you can buy some of the shit you can buy in bookstores now — jigsaw puzzles and maps and postcards. In the front ...