Steve Janke was in a warzone. He had been sent to Vietnam and served during the middle portion of the war, from 1970 to 1971, at Cam Ranh Air Base. Despite the fact Janke hasn’t ...
That's regrettable. It's also regrettable that hardly ever do we think about the life of the authors of hymns and why they wrote what they did. My new book, A Joyful Noise, selects 24 - there could ...
I hurriedly explained that I was simply singing phonetically from the relevant number in the proffered hymn book! However having broken the ice, I found myself engaged in a fascinating conversation ...
George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. By A.O ...
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The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...
In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...