The theme of bad books versus bad readers runs through my recent publication Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, which I ...

It has now been 60 years since the Grateful Dead formed. The US rock band first played at Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” in La Honda, California, in 1965. There, attendees would consume large doses of LSD ...

In “Unshrunk,” Laura Delano chronicles her struggles with mental illness — and the endless parade of pills meant to treat it. By Casey Schwartz Working to cover rent and insurance, “I ...