The delightful aroma of paper books aside (and yes, there is a perfume that can make you smell like a new book), don’t you sometimes wish you could bottle the fragrance of a particularly great read? Some stories are so evocative that the scent of their distinctive settings, characters, and scenes practically wafts from their […]

Public transportation is a boon to the avid reader, allowing you a certain amount of (relatively) uninterrupted time to spend with a book during your weekday commute. Granted, reading on the subway is nothing like curling up in your favorite easy chair—it requires cunning and dexterity to accommodate seats, poles, straps, fellow passengers, and their […]

We’ve all known that one guy—the guy who always seems to have a new, devoted woman (or perhaps the right term is girl) on his arm, despite his seemingly glaring flaws, despite the fact that everyone else around him seems to be settling down. Adelle Waldman tackles that guy’s side of the story in her debut novel, The […]