“My case for books is that they shrink the empathy gap,” Green says, “because when I read Catcher in the Rye, Holden ...

The sheer range of subject matter that may be involved — language, character, plot, theme ... This Victor Frankenstein is no modern Prometheus. But he might be Holden Caulfield.

In common day talk we use the word personality often, ostensibly to describe characteristics that we like or dislike about other individuals. But is personality an enduring pattern of behavior or ...