On reading as a way of cultivating virtue.

What makes for a good book club? Here are three traits.

Augustine on humility.

Fyodor Dostoevsky on telling the truth as a form of love.

On the occasion of a return visit to the country of my birth, some books about Guatemala.

Why we hold onto physical books when there are easier ways to read.

My review of Free to Serve by Stanley Carlson-Thies and Stephen Monsma.

20 words from a cartoonist’s memoir.

C.S. Lewis on love and vulnerability.

A book about baseball by two self-identified “statheads.”

Eugene Peterson on the limits of anger.

My review of The News by Alain de Botton.

My review of Jeremy Beer’s The Philanthropic Revolution.

Why do people hate poetry so much?

Alain de Botton on work that makes a difference.

My review of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre.

My review of Jonathan Tepperman’s The Fix.

Per tradition, my favorites of the year.

Brief thoughts on “a peoples’ history” of the often pitiable Seattle Mariners.

Andrés Neuman on the importance of good goodbyes.