Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. My favorite passage is about the intimacy of acquaintances. It’s a scene ...

Last week, I invited readers to send in the literary passages that most spoke to them and shaped them. Here’s Jen, with a passage from Dostoevsky: I first read The Brothers Karamazov when I was 17, on ...

Are You Good Enough to Be Published Symposium with editor Alan Rinzler. 3 p.m. Cody's, 2454 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley. (510) 845-7852. Cara Black Author of "Murder in Montmartre." 2 p.m. Dark Carnival, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – While analytical, mathematically driven economists don't seem to have much in common with their abstract literary colleagues, a Purdue University professor's new book contends ...

As you decide whether to take the ACT or SAT – or both – consider what the passages on their respective reading tests are like. Here are six traits of ACT and SAT Reading passages that you should be ...

"Usual Suspects" Party Featuring local mystery writers Cara Black, Lora Roberts, Jonnie Jacobs, Mark Coggins, Malinda Hall and many others. 3 p.m. Newburn Mystery Etc., 2134 Broadway, Oakland. (510) ...