GENTLE READER: Wash your hands at the time appointed, hold hands during the prayer, and then, when everyone else starts to ...

However, it seems like other folks never got this same lesson. I frequently find that some well-intentioned guest will look over, notice me not eating, and try to persuade me to go ahead and dig in — ...

In case you missed it, last Thursday, Nov. 13, was “World Kindness Day.” And, of course, as I write this, Thanksgiving is just over a week away, kicking off what is supposed to be a season of giving ...

Get insights on why Nvidia's AI boom may signal market trouble and a bursting AI bubble. Learn what this means for the S&P ...

He was “a loyal American,” Johnny Smith and Randy Roberts write in their terrific new biography, “The Fight of His Life,” and ...

Jessica Baehr was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in college, and she has turned her awkward tics into a writing career. She ...

These are the bestselling books at area independent stores for the week that ended Nov. 9. Stores reporting: the Book House, ...

Miss Manners does not usually condone deconstructing food in public, but these are desperate times. Use your chopsticks to ...

Bad Language, manifesto-cum-memoir from writer and editor So Mayer, dives deep into the archives – of their life, of colonial violence, of protest – to lay bare the politics of speech. What is a ‘bad ...

You never wrote about your mother. Call it a challenge, an observation, or a dare, that was what Gish Jen was thinking as she set out to write her tenth book—did she want to wake up one day and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On Monday, the Booker Prize will be awarded to the best novel in English. Bad books get much less attention. As ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was in an upscale restaurant and the 20-something server totally messed up. The appetizers never arrived, our order was incorrect, etc. The young woman gave a half-hearted apology ...