Novelist Geraldine Brooks shares some of the weirder quirks of her ‘more dewy-eyed than Dewey decimal; more idiosyncratic than ISBN’ book-shelving technique.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment. Joe Queenan has read a lot of books.

The politically incorrect etymology of 11 common words and phrases.