Rodari insists on literature and creative writing’s centrality to a child’s schooling, and urges us to approach the subjects with a sense of delight and an...
James Carlos Blake, whose savage, lyrical novels about outlaws, bootleggers and gunslinging murderers resurrected the violent history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, drawing comparisons to titans of...
A few years ago, Rebecca Yarros almost quit writing. A chronic illness often left her dizzy and exhausted, making it hard to work or even stand...
Imani Perry often finds herself talking about things people get wrong about the South. For one thing, she says, there isn’t a single South, but many...
William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian whose books cemented the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt among the greatest American presidents, died on Tuesday at his home in...
Barry Michael Cooper, who was one of the first journalists to explore the crack epidemic of the 1980s before turning to Hollywood, where he made his...
Pableaux Johnson, a New Orleans food writer, photographer and cook who spread the gospel of community by serving bowls of red beans and rice to thousands...
The comic book company that publishes the graphic novels and comics of Neil Gaiman announced this weekend that it would no longer work with the author...
By 2 a.m. we were happily lost again. Dimly illuminated arches and doorways reflected off the green canal waters. My daughter, Vivian, 16, and I were...
The Vatican-set thriller “Conclave,” based on Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards. In an email interview, he theorized why the book...
