Children are taught that doctors are trustworthy healers, so there’s a special sense of betrayal when they inflict pain.

“I met with an administrator who said, ‘If you want to get promoted, you need to get a federal grant,’” Lai recalled. “So I knew immediately that this was a skill I needed to learn, but I did not know ...

Thousands of Civil War veterans interested in reading the general's description of wartime events created an instant market for the book. Grant's straightforward writing made for a compelling story.

Desperate for money, Grant turned to writing his wartime memoirs as a way to support his family. He began by selling short magazine articles, then negotiated a book contract with a publishing ...

Grant puts the case plainly at the book’s outset: “My world is turning, I have walked away from my career, my father is in his final years, I have more years behind me than ahead and now God ...

Grant is a lawyer, businessman, politico, and philosophe. He’s also an old friend of mine. On a new Q&A, we talk books and the reading life — because Grant is a big reader, a reading machine.