Ernest Hemingway's classic novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, is often designated as one of the greatest ...

Henry David Thoreau never had a standard professional life (though we can still learn much from his ideas ...

Note: Cormac McCarthy died last week at the age of 89. To commemorate his passing, we're ...

Years ago, I was flipping through TV channels and came across Hugh Laurie, of Dr. House fame, decked out ...

Even though the legendary poet Homer wrote the Iliad and Odyssey thousands of years ago, my guest would ...

When you're taking part in your daily constitutional, you've got a few minutes to yourself where you're ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

The two years, two months, and two days Henry David Thoreau spent at Walden Pond represent one of the most ...

Almost twenty million self-help books were sold last year. But the popularity of self-help literature ...

Note: My guest in this episode, Dr. Earle Labor, died on September 15 at the age of 94. Earle was the ...

If you've been listening to this show or reading the AoM website for awhile, then you likely know what ...

If you've been following AoM long enough, you know I like philosophy. I've written about philosophy on the ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

For nearly two hundred years, the private detective has been a literary archetype of manliness. Edgar ...

From ancient times til the present, the ideal warrior has been celebrated as a man of both thought and ...

While shopping at a grocery store a few months ago, my 10-year-old son, Gus, bought a copy of The Old ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

 Gary Hoover loves books. Among the nine companies he founded was the bookstore chain ...

The economist Tyler Cowen describes books that fundamentally change your perspective as "quake books." ...

I have always taken books with me when on hunting and exploring trips. In such cases the literature ...