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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Best of The Strand Magazine,” edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli (Blackstone) What a treat this book is: the best of Strand Magazine’s mysteries ...

Journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s newest book was met with brutal criticism for not being the “tell-all” readers wanted it to be. Nuzzi, a political writer, parted ways with New York magazine last year after ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“Paul Kingsnorth tends to think in the most sweeping terms imaginable,” said Alexander Nazaryan in The New York Times. In Against the Machine, his recent best seller, the British novelist, poet, and ...

Despite the highly entertaining plot and the rip-roaring action, “The Tin Men,” by the father-and-son duo of Nelson and Alex DeMille, comes with sadness. During the writing of this military thriller, ...

The human drive to anthropomorphize is a strange and wondrous habit, if not always a healthy one. The rise of chatbot “therapists” and “girlfriends” is concerning, and I’ll admit I rolled my eyes when ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

All these nuggets are drawn from “Unabridged,” in which Stefan Fatsis—a journalist, broadcaster and author—reflects on his love affair with the dictionary. There are gems aplenty about subjects ...

Mary is arguably the most notable woman in history. Billions of Christians and Muslims alike honor her memory. Yet there is little information about her in the New Testament, and what is there has ...