Readers are no strangers to arguing. In fact, there's a long list of things book-lovers can't stop fighting about: Whether to organize libraries by author or genre, whether its OK to read the movie ...

How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays." Anne Fadiman's new book of essays take on ...

In “The Wine Lover’s Daughter,” Anne Fadiman weaves her own memoir with a biography of her father, Clifton Fadiman, and the compendium of wine knowledge he instilled in her. By Bianca Bosker A writer ...

I used to be dismissive of spiritual approaches to healing. Then I opened my eyes to something essential about them. This is the first in a series from Globe Ideas about how people change their minds.

Whether she is exploring a medical culture clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, or negotiating the fraught terrain of merging her books with her husband's in Ex Libris, author Anne ...

Said New Yorker Editor Harold Ross: “He came to me and said he was 40 years old and wanted to do something else.” Added the ‘New Yorker’s bookeditor: “I thought it was time to move over and give ...

Anne Fadiman's new book of essays take on topics that might not seem the most urgent of our times. But we soon learn otherwise. She writes about a pet she couldn't pet, a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet ...