Special educators explain how engaging young children in Art can help them become emotionally strongerSpecial educators explain how engaging young children in Art can help…
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Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks
“The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War…
View More Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever TricksDrew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit
Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.Donald…
View More Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully PulpitNicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in Love
In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,”…
View More Nicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in LoveAll the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space
Benjamin Percy’s novel “The Ninth Metal” imagines a cutthroat race for meteor deposits with extraordinary properties.Benjamin Percy’s novel “The Ninth Metal” imagines a cutthroat race…
View More All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From SpaceHow America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past
In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history…
View More How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery PastPulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage
In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and…
View More Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ MarriageIn César Aira’s World, Life Is a Series of Chance Encounters
“The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.“The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.Read MoreBooks and…
View More In César Aira’s World, Life Is a Series of Chance EncountersMichelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother
Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in “Pure Flame” the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings…
View More Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her MotherBen Rhodes Takes a Gloomy Tour of the World
Rhodes’s “After the Fall” surveys the dangers America’s policies have helped create, and how those dangers are coming back to haunt us.Rhodes’s “After the Fall”…
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