Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda On The Importance of Deep, Imaginative, Listening
In our series Can Writing Be Taught, we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing....
7 Books That Speak the Truth of War for Civilians
War operates like a disease. Only those who have personally experienced it know its toll. For them, they will suffer from the pain of it, and...
How To Find and Develop a Local Anti-Censorship Group: Book Censorship News, August 12, 2022
How can you find like-minded people in your community to work with in ending censorship? It can certainly feel overwhelming and, in some instances, impossible, but...
Voicing the Classics: 8 Fantastic Classics Audiobooks
Audiobooks aren’t quite my favorite way of approaching the classics (that honor falls to print books, the older and more worn the better), but they’re a...
The Bookish Life of Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh, who turned 60 last week, is a Malaysian Chinese actress, former Miss Malaysia, martial artist, and so much more — she’s lived a very...
Exploring The History of Paper Dolls
If I wasn’t reading as a kid, I was playing with dolls. I still find dolls fascinating and beautiful. I love the variety of dolls, from...
Criminals Abound: 10 Kinds Of Crime Plots
I’ve recently written about the types of plots readers can encounter in murder mystery books and mystery books that don’t focus on murder. This time I...
Standalone Fantasy Books for Newbies to the Genre
The fantasy genre can be intimidating. It doesn’t help that the dominant stereotypes of the genre can be a turn-off for most people. People think of...
Survey shows how people decide what to trust online
Alex Mahadevan is director of MediaWiseat the Poynter Institute. He has taught digital media literacy to thousands of middle and high schoolers, and has trained hundreds...
New ways we’re helping you find high-quality information
People turn to Google every day for information in the moments that matter most. Sometimes that’s to look for the best recipe for dinner, other times...
