He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.