“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic about a pert girl in a pinafore who falls down a rabbit hole into a magical and menacing underground world, is marking its 150th ...
Lately, when I can’t sleep, I take a book to the sofa and turn on a reading lamp. Insomnia is lonely—and often infuriating—and it’s a comfort to look at words on a page. Generally, the duller the ...