Doing exercises in a book was très terrible. A friend suggested something more radical. By Rachel Kushner There’s a scene I love in the movie “Husbands,” when John Cassavetes, performing in his own ...

During Monica Goldson’s 32 years of service at Maryland’s Prince George’s County public schools, where she started as a high school math teacher and rose to chief executive officer, she grew tired of ...

I read “Middlemarch” for the first time during my sophomore year of college. I didn’t get it. Why would Dorothea, a young and intelligent woman, marry that annoying old man? How could she be so stupid ...