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Lill’s Library is a biweekly series where former KidLit agent intern and avid reader Lillian Heckler tells you what young ...

This unincorporated community in North Central Johnson County is near the farm where I grew up.  I have returned to show my son, Kent, as much of the past as I can; but am challenged—owing to memory ...

By Lauren Christensen 21 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty more.

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be. By Joumana Khatib In Linda Joan Smith’s ...

The world is going to hell in a made-in-America handbasket. It feels that way as the Most Idiotic Trade War in History rumbles to life. Congrats, red hats! It seems you voted for $25 cartons of ...

Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The South Carolina Gamecocks coach says her latest book is “my chance to honor the people who have built me up” Carly Tagen-Dye ...