Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s masterwork still unsettles.

there’s something positively life-saving about slim volumes of nature poetry being slipped through my letterbox at regular intervals during the week. This isn’t a result of some particularly ...

DEAR ABBY: I have a 7-year-old great-granddaughter, “Emma.” She’s beautiful, smart, happy and just wonderful. Her dad, my grandson, and her mother are no longer together, but they share ...

In Dear Diary, the National Post satirically re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. This week, Tristin Hopper takes a journey inside the thoughts of Wayne Gretzky. It was a few years ago ...

DEAR ABBY: Over the last few years, my family has faced a lot of loss, especially my mother. In the span of three years, she has lost her parents, my father and my brother. We had a little joy ...

Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’ questions. Tell him about your lifelong or ...

DEAR ABBY: I am blessed with two sons who live with me. They are in their mid-20s. The younger one is an amazing young man. He’s strong, confident but not cocky, and happy. He’s in college ...

Stooping to help on a Manhattan sidewalk, an A train dance party and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: I was running errands on an unseasonably ...

Bryant (Nodin Press, $17) The poems in this love letter to place ... read Patty’s memoir “Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope,” Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023.) ...