Haskell Harris, style director at Garden & Gun magazine, joined staff writer Jura Koncius last week on The Washington Post’s Home Front online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: Do you have paint color recommendations for a medium-size bedroom with little natural light? I have a swatch of Benjamin Moore’s Peau de Soie (in […]

The much-ridiculed augmented-reality goggles from Google, once known as Google Glass, are back after two years of relative silence. On Tuesday, Google’s parent company Alphabet reintroduced the device to the world, and said it is now called simply “Glass” and is under its experimental “X” department. Google stopped a retail test of Google Glass in […]

The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures By Library of Congress Chronicle. 224 pp. $35 This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a week-long depression. If you are a book lover of a […]

Just how separated are we? Two cross-country hitchhikers use social media to prove it’s just four degrees The great American road trip is woven deep into the country’s cultural fabric. Just think of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley,” and Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” Now, two millennials are […]