This charming documentary about the New York Times crossword puzzle and the people who love it is filled with myriad delights.

“You want the tiles to turn green, just like the planet"

Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.

"All About Steve" can make a person long for those heady days of Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey vehicles

At least one Republican seems set to join Democrats in a resolution condemning Bush's Iraq plan.

For the gentle reader who has everything, there's only one mail-order catalog: Levenger's

Plus, here are 5 of the queen's recipes to make as you play

Mrs. Nabokov could have been anything she wanted to be. All she wanted to be was Mrs. Nabokov.

Clay Shirky and Danny O'Brien discuss e-mail's power in politics.

Ignore what the corporate lobbyists and naysayers say — the U.S. Postal Service does a great job AND makes money

While my son, 6, worked on his first feature film, I learned a surprising fact about my dad, who had sinus cancer

Encourage children to think about where they are in relation to a picture or map

A historian examines the roots of American self-righteousness.

New studies suggest bilingual ability increases executive control in the brain, which could fight mental disease

In Colson Whitehead's dazzling follow-up to "The Intuitionist," a junketeering journalist pursues an American legend in an epic tale of man, machine and free drinks.