When life hits harder than expected, these eight reads offer more than motivation. They teach steadiness, discipline, and the ...

Mark Athitakis, in the Washington Post this week, accuses popular books on Stoicism of pandering to a general audience interested in self-help. Some of these books might as well be Tony Robbins', he ...

A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE: 53 Brief Lessons for Living. By Massimo Pigliucci. Basic Books. 160 pages. $12. While many followers of philosophy might opt for Epicureanism as a roadmap to an ...

Are you caring so much it hurts? You're not alone. When empathy drains us, Stoic wisdom, supported by neuroscience, shows how ...

You may hear the word stoic and, like many, have a misconception that stoics are stone-faced, unfeeling Shakespearean actors on a stage. Not the case. Stoicism isn’t a definition -- it’s a practice.

Best-selling author and creator behind the popular @DailyStoic, Ryan Holiday says that he grew up asking smart people for book recommendations. Now, he’s playing it forward with his best books for ...

DEATH OF A MAN (181 pp.)—Lael Tucker Wertenbaker—Random House ($3.50). Charles Christian Wertenbaker was a member of one of Virginia’s grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to ...

How often have you finished a book and tucked it away on your bookshelf? Or how often have you borrowed a book, read it, and returned it? There’s a difference between reading and living a book. Most ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Described on the cover as “part memoir, part biography, part imagination”, Heather Taylor-Johnson’s Little Bit deploys autofiction to ...