I’m hoping The Nation can help me find a book.  When I was in late grade school, which would have been in the early 1980s, I had the reading skills to read fairly advanced chapter …

Gunn and Grann return for another shot at group-reading glory, along with Scientologists, my baseball grandpa, and “incon-thee-vable!”‘s brother. Pick us a good one! Poll’s open until next week.

Save The Day shirts — now on sale! If you wanted one in the springtime but didn’t win one, or didn’t know they even existed and now want to fly the contest colors, or whatever, …

Help me please, I’m having an ethical dilemma and I can’t stand it.
It started on Craigslist (of course). I put up an ad in “women seeking men” and a million guys replied. One stood out. …

Abraham Lincoln passed his last hours in a cramped back bedroom in a boardinghouse across the street from Ford’s Theater, mercifully unconscious, folded awkwardly onto a bed too short for him, laboring to breathe. A …

On my drive to work I often drink coffee and eat cinnamon graham crackers. Sometimes during my lunch hour, I’ll go out to the parking lot and sit in my car, reading a book and …

A roundup of what I’ve written and watched recently…

What’s your opinion of cash bars at weddings?
I attended a wedding recently where there was a charge attached to every beverage except tap water. This was met with a ton of grousing (I heard …

As fall and winter approach, I need some wardrobe-building help. 
I work in Manhattan in an industry that’s not quite suits-and-heels, but isn’t cazh, either. I have lots of appropriate separates to wear, but I …

I have an issue driving me crazy that I would love to get some perspective on from you and your readers.
I have a coworker who makes me crazy. I’m tempted to give you a bunch …