Michael Benanav is a New Mexico-based author and freelance photographer known for immersing himself in foreign cultures and ...

You can do it with a card, a bouquet of flowers, or even just a quick text message, but if you want to go the extra mile, you can surprise them with a personalized Valentine’s Day gift.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

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But she is so earnestly excited by her subject that even a skeptical reader is bound to feel a swell of enthusiasm as she makes her full-throated case for a life of the mind. She wants her book to ...