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Sleep-friendly reading is not necessarily bad reading. It simply means reading that is pleasant, calming, and unlikely to hijack your nervous system. Think of it as choosing a...

Memorial Day arrives with the unofficial opening of summer, which is a very American kind of multitasking: we grill, we travel, we shop, and we pause to remember...

Memorial Day has a strange power: it doesn’t ask to be understood so much as felt. Books and literature can give us the language of sacrifice, grief, courage,...

War poetry has never been in the business of making war look shiny. It has never bothered with recruiting posters, brass bands, or the kind of heroic language...

Graduation is a strange little holiday. One minute you’re celebrating the completion of a degree; the next, everyone starts asking the frightening question: “So… what’s next?” As if...

Memorial Day slips into our calendars with the gentle promise of a long weekend, but its true purpose runs deeper. It is a day woven with the weight...

Mental Health Awareness Month is a good time to do something radical: sit down. Not forever, mind you—just long enough to let a book do what it does...

Mother’s Day: the annual reminder to thank your maternal figure for not selling you to the circus when you tried to “cook” with her good lipstick. But did...

Mother's Day can feel similar to navigating a minefield when you're carrying the burden of child loss. While the world celebrates with flowers and brunch, you might find...

Have you ever wondered what Gertrude and Lady Macbeth might have posted on social media for Mother's Day? While that's an amusing thought, these two iconic maternal figures...