Monday, July 27, 2026

CARLY SIMON REVEALS PARKINSON’S DISEASE DIAGNOSIS: ‘I AM STILL VERY MUCH HERE’

On my exercise walk I pass the Quaker Meeting House.

I’ve only read 50 pages. I just got started. There are 400-some pages. So far it’s very good. Better than you’d think. Get it.

IS THE AGE OF READING OVER?

Rose Horowitch on her cover story and what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”

Aging. My 79-year-old hand the other day.

Nikole Hannah-Jones Talks About Her Mission to Put Challenged Books Directly Into the Hands of Children in Iowa