Author Jonathan Franzen has never shied away from speaking his mind on everything from Twitter to Oprah's Book Club to e-books. The first is "unspeakably irritating," the second is "for women," and ...

E very year for nearly a decade, I’ve assigned Anna Karenina to students enrolled in my course on the novel. At more than 800 pages, Tolstoy’s saga can invite hurried reading, so a lot of class time ...

Lord Hanuman is widely worshipped for strength, courage, and intelligence, yet the quality he valued most was simplicity. Ancient texts like the Ramayana show that Hanuman’s greatness came from a pure ...