I had the opportunity to speak by phone with writer and podcaster Jennifer L. Scott. The author of the Madame Chic books — ...

ALL SUMMER LONG — Wilder Hobson —Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). “You’ll be happy working for me. I really am a man of parts, you know,” said suave, gentlemanly J. (for Jack) Bates Upham ...

Mrs. Bleakman is having a very special party for her book club members. Cleo and Mac convince Clifford that his manners won't be good enough and insist on teaching him special fancy manners for the ...

Clifford A. Pickford ... would eventually write about the mysteries of divination; his 20-some popular books cover subjects as... Computer graphics reveal hidden relationships in complex systems ...

GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...

What the Pet Shop Boys’ Secret Service song means now. Guess who dropped by Political Beats to discuss his career with us? Returning to the more compelling storylines help guard the latest ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.” In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a good friend who is the polar opposite of me on politics, religion and almost every other subject. We are cognizant of these differences, and refrain from debate or ...

Dear Miss Manners: I have a number of friends I regularly meet for meals out, as well as for friends’ birthdays. We’ve been friends for going on 40 years and first began socializing after ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper way to eat cherries with pits? Cutting them up to remove the pits seems excessive, but just spitting out the pits into a napkin doesn’t seem proper ...

Tyler Anbinder’s book about how Irish immigrants made it in New York feels like a miracle of historical precision. Flat cream puffs can be salvaged by turning them into a non-traditional but ...

Dear Miss Manners: I have a good friend who is the polar opposite of me on politics, religion and almost every other subject. We are cognizant of these differences, and refrain from debate or ...