The idea for the Art of Manliness came to me 17 years ago as I was standing in the magazine section of a ...

I remember when I was a kid, and my dad was in his forties, Christmas shopping for him was tough. By ...

In creating the Jack Reacher character, Lee Child launched a series of books that now boast 100 million ...

With over 300 million books sold, Louis L'Amour is one of the bestselling authors of all time. All 120 of ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle ...

I’m a big fan of hard-boiled detective novels. I highlighted my favorites in a previous article. The ...

In order to thrive in a world that's constantly in flux, you have to learn to overcome your fear of the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...