Are you stuck in a reading rut, and can't seem to find a good book in all your usual places? Maybe it is time to step out of your literary comfort zone and try one of these essay collections for ...

It's Friday, and you know what that means: it's time to create your perfect weekend reading list. This week, instead of trying to start a lengthy novel or tackle an extensive work of nonfiction, pick ...

In his April 26, 2006, Commentary (“Reading-Comprehension Skills? What Are They Really?”), E.D. Hirsch Jr. contends that to improve comprehension, educators should focus on building students’ ...

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

Julian Novitz has contributed seven essays to the Sydney Review of Books between 2013-2022. Critic Swallows Book collects 22 diverse essays from the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) to celebrate its ...

Self-help and nonfiction books. (Photo by Genna Martin / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) In 2018, the writer Elaine Castillo released her debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, which is set ...

Andrew Losowsky is having a busy week. For one thing, he has just been appointed the new Books Editor for the Huffington Post (disclosure: Aol blah blah blah) and his latest essay – Reading in Four ...

When I decided to take a gap year last summer, I set out to fill my spare time with writing about the books I have been reading. This was new for me — though I am an English major, I hardly wrote ...