When you are immersed in reading, you are distracted by everything else but the content of the book, and you experience a sense of calm and relaxation that makes your mind relax. In today's busy and ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson is no stranger to gleaning meaning from cultural moments both big and small. With her second memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, she turns her keen eye ...

Don't let the title of Margo Jefferson's new book, Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir, fool you. By "nervous system," the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic has in mind not just the brute facts of ...