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The 'Twelve Tribes of Hattie' author shares her thoughts on a 1937 work by Osip Mandelstam. Plus: a song! More »
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The author, who died this week at 83, believed kids are able to handle dark, complicated stories. More »
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An interview with Nathan Englander, author of the short-story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" More »
The author, whose children's book was turned into a Martin Scorsese-directed, Academy Award-nominated film, is starting to resemble some of his own characters. In his lavishly illustrated books for children, author-artist Brian Selznick writes about magic—but not the wand-waving, quidditch-broom kind. Selznick takes up the real-life wonders conjured by history's big dreamers: the impossible illusions of Harry Houdini; the phantasmagoric landscapes of… More »
We've gathered all of the lectures from Michael Pollan's Berkeley class in which the bestseller introduced students to several food A-listers More »
The former Speaker's remarks met with an Occupy-style Mic Check and shouting at the University of Iowa. More »
An interview with the writer about his new essay collection, "The Ecstasy of Influence" More »
Realistic stories once dominated American literature, but now writers are embracing the fantastical. What happened? More »
