Richard Price may be the street’s premiere storyteller. The writer behind some of the best episodes of HBO’s “The Wire” as ...
Price’s four interlaced East Harlem protagonists are big-souled people navigating narrow, “negotiated life.” What they want ...
"High Banks & Heroes," a new book from The Daytona Beach News-Journal and Pediment Publishing, chronicles the NASCAR history of the Daytona 500.
Half a liter of water, plus a pinch of salt and a fistful of sugar. As scientific insights go, it can’t compare to the intricate equations developed to split the atom or map the planets’ paths ...
By Catherine Hong Advertisement 5 Picture Books About Space, From the Sublime to the Silly Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry ...
Richard Roeper, a Sun-Times contributor since 1987 and a Chicago native, is the author of seven books and the former co-host of “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies.” He is the film critic for ABC-7 ...
Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz. The celebrity chef’s ...
The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...
The turbulent and troubled life of Vivien Leigh comes to light in Lyndsy Spence's new book. Ysenda Maxtone Graham discovers the mental turmoil the actress battled with. How could a cocky blond 20 ...
Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...
The El Campo Literacy Advocates of Rotary recently visited all of the kindergarten classrooms in the district to gift each ...
Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based ...