The Times Literary Supplement‘s excerpt of Katherine Ashenberg’s entry in the long and long list of natural history titles includes a section on scent and sex.

I realize my insistence upon the privacy of unmessaged calls is unusual, but I insist that it is a good policy to maintain.

At lunch it so happened that the CEO and board president of the corporate nonprofit I work for stood beside me in line at the grill.

I have no better things to do than this.

I’ve grown a beard again.

How to kill an exchange of pleasantries fast.