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Don’t forget to pack these lake trip essentials on your next vacation.

In some ways, the recent furor over Indiana’s RFRA echoed a heated discrimination debate from three decades ago, when the state was previously a battleground in the national culture wars.

They helped me to quit feeling sorry for myself for my own loss. These women write. They are workhorses.

The prospect of being confined to a vehicle worried me far less than the thought of listening to Philosophy and Intellectual History, Volume 2 for 18 hours.

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Great picks at Children’s Museum, Eiteljorg, IMA, and more

Indy’s personal-finance guru on his new book series, his writing soundtrack, and why he’s called a chintzy tooth fairy.

“Only this kind of coverage could have brought the faces and missions of the movement to millions of otherwise-indifferent white dinner tables.”

The Deadly Dinner Party fascinates with tales of rare and mysterious ailments and helps readers understand why a doctor often has to play detective.

Literary superstar John Green gets top billing, but it’s the lesser-known names that make it worth the price of admission.

“I still buy books at bookstores, and most of our children’s books come from Kids Ink,” he says. “I buy some YA titles there, too.”

On dating: “It’s not the guys, it’s once they tell their parents. They were there when HIV was considered a death sentence.”

“The Indianapolis of Does Not Love is the Indianapolis of my memory: strange, flat, a little lonely, filled with secrets that are just beyond one’s sight.”

“We’re capitalists because we’d rather be happy. And blissfully successful. And able to take any extra money we have to buy a killer pair of pumps.”

“I think with almost every book I’ve written somebody says, ‘It reads like a novel,’ and I always like to hear that because it means that I’m using facts in the way that a novelist uses invented things.”