Books

The O.J. Simpson parole hearing is dominating the non-politcal news, but the legacy of race relations looming large in the criminal justi ...

Whether it’s an especially hot or cold day – or mild or unmemorable one – the weather reports coming through the radio, ...

Fewer and fewer Delaware schools have certified librarian as principals look to put more educators in the classroom. Every morning ...

News about Syria stresses geopolitics, so it takes some effort to find an article remidning us that Syria is an actual country with people living there, and dying there. 

There is much to be learned from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” written in 1949, which has suddenly jumped again ...

The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...

What does it take to create a successful independent bookstore? For Ellen Trachtenberg, running a good bookstore is a lot like enj ...

The recent use of fake news and “alternative facts” has proven that fiction remains a powerful force. The problem, of course, ...

It is ironic that the 30th anniversary of “In the Life, ...

When I heard that One Book One Philadelphia had chosen ...

To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.