Let’s face it—modern life can feel overwhelming. Deadlines. Bad news. Social media noise. Emotional roller coasters. We’re constantly trying to stay afloat in a world that seems to pull us in every ...

With the world suffering from atrocities and being bombarded with appalling headlines, it is possible to find some peace, solace and encouragement through reading a brief daily devotional. Millions ...

DEATH OF A MAN (181 pp.)—Lael Tucker Wertenbaker—Random House ($3.50). Charles Christian Wertenbaker was a member of one of Virginia’s grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to ...

Mark Athitakis, in the Washington Post this week, accuses popular books on Stoicism of pandering to a general audience interested in self-help. Some of these books might as well be Tony Robbins', he ...

You may hear the word stoic and, like many, have a misconception that stoics are stone-faced, unfeeling Shakespearean actors on a stage. Not the case. Stoicism isn’t a definition -- it’s a practice.

The self-help market is flooded with books about Stoicism, an ancient school of philosophy that emphasizes equanimity and self-mastery and that includes, among its proponents, famed Roman statesman ...

Since retiring from the University of Notre Dame, North Carolina native Tom Morris has made it his business to take philosophy off campus and into the everyday world. Through his Wilmington-based ...

HADRIAN’S MEMOIRS (313 pp.]—Marguerite Yourcenar—Farrar, Straus & Young ($4). This book has about as much in common with the run of historical novels as a Roman bust with Marilyn Monroe’s. The novel ...