Dear Miss Manners: My wife and I had a houseguest for a few days, and we fell into discussing some books that I have. She, the guest, expressed interest in borrowing one, but I declined. I am a ...

One of her standard jabs is to bring me a gift with an insult attached. How does a polite person respond to repeated insults ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I had a houseguest for a few days, and we fell into discussing some books that I have. She, the guest, expressed interest in borrowing one, but I declined.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I need an objective opinion about a disagreement my boyfriend and I are having. For Christmas, he sent each of my kids (ages 14 and 11) a book as a gift.

Miss Manners: She gives me gifts that are intended as public insults After the muumuu and the children’s books, I’m out of patience with her nonsense ...

He loaned friends some historical books, and they later insisted that all had been returned. But when he was at the friends’ house for dinner, he saw this missing book on a shelf. How can he … ...

Dear Miss Manners: For several years, I have been in a prestigious club that helps children. In that time, I have been ridiculed about almost anything I do. I am talked about because my clothes ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For several years, I have been in a prestigious club that helps children. In that time, I have been ridiculed about almost anything I do. I am talked about because my clothes ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For several years, I have been in a prestigious club that helps children. ... When I found out they were also cooking the books, I got off the board.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a book club meeting at our library, the conversation got slightly off topic for a short period of time. One of the participants said, loudly, “For (expletive’s) sake ...