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Kate DiCamillo Is Not Afraid of the Dark

Kate DiCamillo learned the craft of storytelling by sitting on old ladies’ porches on her dead-end street in Central Florida.…

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How the Humble Paperback Helped Win World War II

When American soldiers fought on the battlefields of World War II, they were carrying more than weapons. They also carried…

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Banana Yoshimoto Wants Books to Give Her Insomnia

What books are on your night stand? I read most of my books on the Kindle, but as far as…

World

I Read Banned Books. So Does Almost Everybody Else.

During my grade school years in the early 1970s, I read everything. Books, of course — books about dogs and…

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The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway

What books are on your night stand? “We, the Drowned,” by Carsten Jensen; “The Betrothed,” by Alessandro Manzoni; “Utopia for…

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The Irony in the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’

You may have heard about Oliver Anthony, a Virginia-based folk singer who has become a conservative folk hero on account…

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Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago

An editor recommends two escapist biographies.

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Read Your Way Through Appalachia

Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as…

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A Love Letter to Hip-Hop

Hip-hop repeatedly taught a community, then a nation, then the world, how to dream.

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Read Your Way Through Maine

Reading and writing are deeply valued in Maine. The novelist Lily King recommends fiction, nature writing, memoirs, children’s books and…

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