The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels & the Business of AIDS– a must-read for the socially-conscious global citizen

The secret allure and the greatness of literature, the secret that sends us to it over and over again, with enthusiasm and a longing to find refuge and meaning, is that literature can repeatedly redeem for us the tragedy of the one from the statistics of

A British import called The Dangerous Book for Boys has soared on American bestseller lists. Is it a new beacon for real boyhood—or a throwback to 1950s-style ideas of sex roles, "dangerous" in a different way than its title suggests?

In “Collapse,” Jared Diamond shows how societies destroy themselves. by Malcolm Gladwell

A children’s book that included the word “scrotum” was recently the subject of great controversy in school libraries nationwide.A search has discovered several more questionable titles and excerpts from other works intended for readers twelve and u

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Davidson romps through the eighteenth century ...Her vast command of its literature and history... is put to use in demonstrating that politeness and manners served hypocritical aims, principally the subjugation of servants and women...

Reading is a democratic activity, argues Philip Pullman, and theocracies discourage it.