Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Miss Grief" by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Anne Boyd Rioux
When Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote “Miss Grief,” shortly after her arrival in Europe in late 1879, she was, unlike her eponymous...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Hum
Ann Hood
Todd invited the Korns—all of them—for a visit at the beach. Not just dinner, but to stay overnight. Laura was finishing the border of a 2000...
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #41
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Matt Stine and Elisabeth Weinberg, Dora M. Mitchell, Marisha Pessl, and Meghan MacLean Weir!
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Fiction, Essays & More
Klodt's Horses
Mikhail Iossel
One day, many years ago, in another lifetime, a friend told me that the sculptor Peter Klodt, author of the famed four-part Horse-Tamer composition...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Bonnie Nadzam on a Biography of Helen Keller
Bonnie Nadzam
Maybe it’s instructive that I more or less recall the book but not the exact title or author of the book. It was a YA biography of Helen Keller...
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Fiction, Essays & More
What Happens Next
Roy Kesey
Was that meant to be a proper question? If not—if you were only making conversation—then very well, let us converse. But if so, then I’m...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Abol Tabol and the Bengali Language
Anuradha Roy
Before I could read, I was read to, and there was only one book that was read aloud in our house. I am four years old. Then five, then six, seven
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Fiction, Essays & More
Remembering John Updike
Roxana Robinson
The author of Sparta looks back at one of her literary mentors.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreLines of Resistance
A Week After 11/9
Anne Landsman
In this essay, novelist Anne Landsman talks about growing up during South Africa’s apartheid, how her Jewish parents quietly fought xenophobia...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Louisa May Alcott and James Joyce
Sara Paretsky
I can’t remember the first books I read, although I do remember the first words I wasn’t able to sound out: “city” and “Penelope
