The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to ...

Taylor Swift 's "Wood" was certainly a hot topic this year. The music database Genius released its year-end statistics earlier this week, and a particularly scandalous lyric from Swift's The Life of a ...

Let’s get the embarrassing part out of the way first. Last January, hungover and hopeful, I made the same promise I make every year: I am going to become ...