Part of what makes former first lady Laura Bush's open, deeply felt and engrossing memoir, "Spoken From the Heart," genuinely memorable is its portrait of her marriage to George W. Bush. Whatever one ...

Harold Bloom passed away last week. An admired literary critic who endorsed the Western canon, a long-standing Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, his absence is a significant ...

A British mathematician and the author of “Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.” “Call me Ishmael.” This has to be one of the most famous opening sentences ...