“After I finish shaving you, I’ll spoon-feed you some exposition.”  
I hesitate to criticize Stephen King film adaptations that turn out well, because so many of them don’t, and Misery is a good one — …

 “Mommeeeeeeeeeee!”
I know you ALWAYS get cat questions, but this one goes off one you answered last year because it raised a discussion between a friend and myself. She now thinks I am a heartless …

You can’t say Dr. Bronner didn’t lead a remarkable life, so it’s rather unfortunate that the weakest parts of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox are the sequences during which Bronner himself is talking — expounding on …

I’m out of town for a few days; while I’m gone, I’ll be finishing Posner’s Case Closed, and starting I Love You, Beth Cooper and that book on the TV-news wars Kim lent me months …

Hi Sars,
It’s really kind of embarrassing that I have to ask this question — I go to an Ivy League university and while browsing the library page today I noticed the following:
“On this day… …

Sarah, I really need a third-party opinion.
BF and I have been dating for nearly four years, and we have a very loving and committed relationship. Unfortunately, we also have very, very differing views about …

John Grisham’s fiction isn’t my thing — the one novel I read twenty years ago was plenty — but I read good reviews of The Innocent Man, his foray into non-fiction/true crime, and I had …

For those of you not familiar, “FMK” stands for “Fuck, Marry, Kill”; for those of you not familiar with that, it’s like Death Is Not An Option, but with another element added. Like DINAO, you …

Reader Alexis had this to add re: the Vine letter of March 4:
 

The case of “hard to underestimate” that you discussed in The Vine recently was investigated on the linguistics blog Language Log in 2004: …

Hi Sarah,
Your readers have done such a good job of finding books and music I thought I’d give you all a shot at this one. My sister and I are looking for a children’s book …