In one of the stories in Neil Gaiman’s new collection, “Fragile Things” (Morrow, 360 pages, $26.95), a young man tries to write what appears to be a very bad Gothic novel. Every time he gets ...

Even though eBook readers like the Kindle are popular, paperback books are still awesome. They may be fragile ... among other things. Pages get bent, covers are scratched, or other things in ...

When we try to predict things, says Taleb, we’re fragile. But we’re only fragile if the thing we need is certainty. Our problem is that we’re too in love with controlling our environment.