Before video games, movies, and TV, there was, well, books. Reading is one of the oldest pastimes, and while a lot has changed between Homer’s The Iliad and Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass, the ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I’ve read 104 books so far this year, and I’ve paid for maybe 10 of them. It’s not that I don’t want to support authors in every way I can … but ...