Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...

“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 ...

It’s easy to look down on self-help books, but believe it or not the genre is as old as Athens. The word “therapy” comes from therapeia, the ancient Greek word for “healing.” It treated both the body ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shortly before his death in 1882, Charles Darwin received a letter from a physician and classicist named William Ogle. It contained Ogle’s recent translation of Aristotle’s The Parts of Animals and a ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Screenwriters have long mined Aristotle’s “Poetics” for craft tips, but at last someone has thought to update it for the ...

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 ...