Taking shelter in the Strand, an encounter with a very tall man and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

The children’s book illustrator grounds his work in a Cincinnati and Midwest aesthetic that authors from Barack Obama to Madonna to Amanda Gorman love being associated with. If you walk into a ...

A young man sitting at the desk with a tall stack of books listining to music on his phone looking lost in his music. Everyone’s guilty of procrastinating sometimes—even the ancient Greeks and ...

I’m vacationing at Great Pond this week in North Belgrade and making my way through a stack of books: “‘Sea of Tranquility’ by Emily St. John Mandel (reading for my book group) ...

Holborn describes “Lost Time” as a “photobiography” and encourages readers to approach the book as a narrative of its maker rather than a catalog of late 20th- and early 21st-century ...

Within 15 minutes I’m speeding through the book, I can see the appeal. It’s an easy read and an escape into the lives of the uber-rich At home I have a tall stack of her newest titles for 2022.

Canva The science of procrastination and how to beat it A young man sitting at the desk with a tall stack of books listining to music on his phone looking lost in his music.

Arrange 2-4 books in a neat stack, largest book at the bottom, gradually smaller on top. Additionally, you can also have one tall stack of books next to a shorter stack to add visual interest.

A massive number of pages — more than in the original seven Harry Potter books — show Trump’s business holdings and personal income over six years.

“The Swimmers” is just one of an impressively large stack of books librarian Heather Perkinson is reading. “I saw your post on Twitter asking about what Mainers are reading at the beach or lake!