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By LISA BONOS

SAN DIEGO — When Helen Hoang was 12 years old, she skipped lunch for an entire week, hoarding her lunch money so she could buy something more delicious than a midday meal: her first romance novel.Hoang soon realized love stories would feed her in a...

By MATT SCHUDEL

Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote acclaimed nonfiction books that explored the Confederate cultural legacy in the South, the voyages of Capt. James Cook, and the author’s own comical and sometimes harrowing journeys around...

By ANDREW VAN DAM

When we say Vermont is the most European state in the Union, we don’t mean it’s the whitest in terms of ancestry — though it vies with nearby Maine for that distinction.In terms of population trends, Vermont more closely resembles our friends across...

By Tara Bahrampour

Like many educators, Lorenz Neuwirth, a professor of biopsychology and neuropsychology at SUNY Old Westbury, was tired of his students scrolling through their phones during class. The students were physically present, but mentally many were miles...

By Christopher Ingraham

The whole point of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats is summed up right there in the name: It’s the frosting. At some point in the mid-20th century somebody at Kellogg’s got the brilliant idea to spray a layer of frosting over an otherwise bland bale of...

By Nora Krug

San Mateo, Calif. — The literary pairing was inevitable.When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi’s memoir of his final years as he faced lung cancer at age 37, was published posthumously, in 2016, to critical acclaim and commercial success. The Bright...

By Dan Zak

Early last Thursday morning, Richard Nixon’s White House counsel woke from a dream about Donald Trump and nuclear war. This is somewhat typical.John W. Dean III starts most days wondering how the current president will exceed the narcissism and...

By Barbara Damrosch

Compost is “finished” when you can no longer recognize the ingredients that went into making it because they have thoroughly decomposed. It looks like dark, fertile soil, only fluffier, enriched and lightened by the work of bacteria and other soil...

By Stephanie Merry

Like everything else in Loving, the movie’s climax doesn’t soar so much as whisper. A lawyer representing Richard and Mildred Loving in a 1967 Supreme Court case that would validate their marriage and overturn Virginia’s miscegenation laws asks...