The Christian Science Monitor | Books · Scour

In the memoir ‘Joyride,’ Susan Orlean turns her investigative eye inward

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‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.’ How two murderers found grace performing Shakespeare.

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‘There is an inner poet in all of us.’ Laureate Arthur Sze on poetry as discovery.

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When the storms of daily life loom, my family finds refuge in reading

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In the framers’ words, the US Constitution was meant as a living document

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‘What it is to be human’: Poet Ada Limón reflects on curiosity and connection

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‘A spectrum of hope’: A science writer puts life under a microscope

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A writer schools himself on the plight and might of birds

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Kick off autumn with books aplenty. Here are September’s 10 best.

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In this roundup of fall mysteries, everyone has skeletons in the family closet

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Digging deep into the trenches of World War I in ‘Ring of Fire’

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Shakespeare’s rival, Marlowe, ‘awakened the genius of the English Renaissance’

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Malcolm X sought a solution to racism. His words ring powerfully today.

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How ‘Martian mania’ fueled a desire to study the Red Planet

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Amelia Earhart and her husband shared sky-high ambitions

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Let summer linger with the 10 best books of August

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels – and travails – fueled his imagination

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Syria stops banning books. Readers rejoice.

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Wagner wrote stunning operas. His political views have a tangled history.

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Seals have rebounded. Not everyone loves them.

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