Personally, I think it is very clear why “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki did not win the Booker Prize. With star-studded reviews from publications like the New York Times and authors like ...

In my early thirties, I began to cultivate the friendship of older people—people born twenty or thirty or even fifty years before me. I read many novels in those days. My new friends contained the ...

The duration of felt experience is between two and three seconds—about as long as it takes, the psychologist Marc Wittmann points out, for Paul McCartney to sing the words “Hey Jude.” Everything ...