The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will ….

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential..

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different..

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milto….

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my charact….

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from readin….

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods..