“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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many years ago, as an undergraduate at Fordham University, I took two courses taught by the same Jesuit professor: one on Plato and one on Aristotle. While both classes were excellent, I strongly ...

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 ...