book review

Jenny Lawson is a blogger and also has a daughter, but she’s not a mommy blogger. Irreverent, wildly funny, often inappropriate, she’s one of a new breed of online diarists—like Heather B. Armstrong or Kelly Oxford—who are as likely to drop the F-bomb as boast about their offspring.

George has never been able to forget his mesmerizing college sweetheart, Liana Decter, who disappeared decades ago amid rumours of...

According to the age-old cartomancy, a person can manipulate any event through eight specific people: an octavo

In this passage from Barbara Mutch's new novel, The Housemaid's Daughter, which begins in 1920s South Africa, the innocent young Ada struggles to understand where she belongs in Cradock House.

On Sarah Grimké’s 11th birthday in 1803, her mother gives her what was then a suitable present for a girl of Sarah’s...