In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...

Here are my 10 favorite books of all time: - A Treatise of Human Nature - Anathem - Confessions - The Intellectual Life - After Virtue - The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Blood ...