“Some boys just know they’re gay. I don’t know how that happens. And I think other boys don’t know, and then they start discovering that.” According to Benjamin Alire Sáenz, this is the dichotomy at ...

Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz takes a break from signing copies of "Aristotle and Dante" books for readers at his home in El Paso. Alfredo Corchado / The Dallas Morning News Benjamin Alire Sáenz can’t ...

The first time I picked up “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” I almost immediately put it back down after realizing it was set in the late 1980s. After admitting to myself ...

The whole world is story mad. Pundits invoke the political “narrative”; passing news items become breathless podcasts; restaurant menus portentously recount “Our Story.” In the corporate world, ...

GREEN LAURELS—Donald Culross Peattie—Simon & Schuster ($3.75). Today’s man-in-the-subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And ...

Poetics by Aristotle is “the first surviving work devoted to literary criticism”. I was first told it was essential reading (to the point of it being an embarrassment not to have imbibed every page ...

It's one of the main lessons of the Aristotle book that you are what you eat. And if you want to feel sexy, eat animals that love sex. "Tis an infallible aphorism in physic, that whatsoever any ...

Aristotle, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, offered profound insights into how humans can live meaningful and ...

When Alan Ryan’s two-volume study of political philosophy, “On Politics,” came out a year ago, it raised a daunting, if not entirely intended, issue: How to read more than 1,000 pages of intellectual ...

ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DIVE INTO THE WATERS OF THE WORLD By Benjamin Alire Sáenz BAD GIRLS NEVER SAY DIE By Jennifer Mathieu HIMAWARI HOUSE By Harmony Becker There is no better time for reading than the ...