An inability to name what’s being felt makes feelings “seem not just unknown but unknowable,” writes John West in his lyrical and crystalline new memoir “Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery” ...

Can a single book really change the world? There are plenty of candidates, including Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things," and W.W. Norton has reissued Frank O. Copley's translation of this wondrous ...