“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” This old adage is not often heard these days, but as a cliche, it does what all good cliches do, which is point to some obvious and necessary truth. The truth in ...

Let me tell you how I read: I sit in my apartment with my back to shelves of lovely books, hundreds of carefully chosen books, and I fire up a web browser and go to archive.org, the Internet Archive, ...