Rogers, 1907: “I was tired when this was taken and I think this picture shows it.” So said Gladys 119 years ago to Miss Vida Baker, also of Rogers. Gladys had postcards made with her photo, leaving plenty of space upon which to write.

Two recent books, very different in subject and temperament, are concerned with how institutions such as sports gambling and literary culture come to organize daily life without much resistance. One examines how loss became a business model in American sports. The other records how a major writer lived inside the ordinary machinery of literary life. Neither argues loudly. Both a...

Little Rock is among the historic destinations explored in Deborah D. Douglas' "U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement."

It is a point of pride for a property to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But you might wonder if this honor is really much of a big deal, considering that Arkansas has more than 2,600 such designations among the 100,000-plus nationwide.

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