This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book ...

For longer than I can count, the first column of the year is a declaration of my reading resolutions. These resolutions are a declaration of hope, an attempt at refreshing and refurbishing stale ...

Humanity has a collective habit of trying to change at the beginning of each cycle: whether it’s an annual summer bucketlist, or the beginning of a new semester or quarter, or the start of a new ...