Not all who wander are lost, Tolkien wrote, in a verse about a king travelling in disguise, and the line has since become a favourite of everyone who has ever ...

Ask a married man who he feels closest to and there is a decent chance he says his wife, then attaches a small apology to it.

Cowardice gets blamed for a lot of lives that never changed direction. Most of the time it's the wrong diagnosis.

Some people burn out loudly. There is a 2am resignation email, a bad meeting everyone still talks about, a stairwell cry that ...

We have quietly collapsed three things that used to be easier to tell apart: information, knowledge, and wisdom. The age of ...

There is a widely held assumption that people harden as they age. The tastes settle, the opinions calcify, the appetite for ...

The popular claim in the title, on close inspection of the psychological literature it draws from, is more grounded than ...

It doesn’t happen suddenly: how people in their 60s and 70s slowly find themselves alone, with no one to talk to ...

The science of reading's mental benefits is murkier than we assume—one payoff is proven, the other remains elusive.

My grandmother greeted me the same way every time. She would look at me, make a noise somewhere between a growl and a hiss, ...

My grandmother went to Mass every Sunday of her adult life. She also had a gift for taking her sister apart over lunch, usually before the second course ...

There is a bench outside my building in Bangkok, under a tree I could not identify if you paid me. Late afternoon, the sun ...