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Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America’s greatest writer. It makes sense that distinguished biographer Chernow (Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton) has ...

Torok presents a beginner’s guide to an alternative energy-healing therapy and its potential health benefits. The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ...

In Phen’s YA novel, a Mexican teenager discovers the value of devotion through an indelible bond with a loyal and resilient dog. In 1974, 14-year-old Ernesto lives in a modest home near Tijuana, ...

A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking. The author of several scholarly texts, Kahneman (Emeritus ...

Three educators at different points in their careers navigate life and work in a small town in Culbertson’s novel. After an entitled parent accosts her in her prep school’s parking lot (“he shoved me ...

Featuring 287 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Maggie Stiefvater, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Medina, and J.D. Netto; and ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Uganda’s murderous myth-maker. Peterson, a scholar at the University of Michigan and author of The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin, writes that Amin’s 1971-79 rule generated massive paperwork, which ...

A charming bird journey with the bestselling author. In his introduction to Tan’s “nature journal,” David Allen Sibley, the acclaimed ornithologist, nails the spirit of this book: a “collection of ...