From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong in every kid's library. Others ...

Eric Tucker, who lived and died in Warrington, created over 500 rosy paintings of everyday life, as nephew Joe relates in The Secret Painter ...

Haidar Ghazali, a 20-year-old poet from Gaza, observes a city where war lingers - not in bombs, but in what it leaves behind.

In a recent legislative committee meeting on university budgets, state Rep. J.D. Prescott, R-Union City, criticized my ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

They wanted shorter work weeks and shorter workdays. They wanted paid vacations. Can you imagine in 1917, going on strike for paid vacations? But Trotsky didn't understand it. He wanted revolution in ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 31 (Reuters) - South African businesses and households were hit by scheduled power cuts for the first time in 10 months on Friday due to breakdowns at state power utility Eskom's ...

This marks the third week in a row, by the way, with The Unbroken Voice at #1 on Netflix in this category. Andy Meek is a reporter based in Memphis who has covered media, entertainment ...

I imagine this book as a love letter to my younger self, the mess I made of my 20s, and the perfect blob who I imagined might come along and solve my problems. How long did it take to go from idea ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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