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Last month’s release of Chaim Grade’s novel Sons and Daughters in English translation has drawn wide praise from a variety of ...
Kirsch calls the book “quite probably the last great Yiddish novel.” He may be right, and Sons and Daughters almost didn’t ...
From children's books, to nonfiction, to mysteries and LGBTQ+ lit, discover the authors — who were librarians, or still are — ...
Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The Cartoonists Club” and Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander’s “J vs. K.” By James Sturm Missing for decades from ...
One School, One Book was a big hit at Oberlin Elementary School as students who were given clues throughout the week to the name of the book that was revealed to them. Oberlin Elementary literacy ...
As a parent, I've found that kids' books are one of the easiest things to buy more of. They're fairly cheap and overly ...
The Great Gatsby published 100 years ago on April 10 and was a staple in high school curriculums. We look at how it's being taught in classrooms, in light of present day events, all these years later.
“Authority,” a new collection of reviews and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu, showcases her smarts, humor and contempt. By Charles Finch The nominees for the ...
Reading books may have several health benefits ... The study found that people who read more than 3 1/2 hours every week were 23 percent more likely to live longer than those who didn’t read.
November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.
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In “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad criticizes the Western narratives that make suffering in Gaza an abstraction In her memoir, “The 10,” E.A. Hanks ...