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At Time, poet Kevin Young discusses his new role as director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, as well as the ways...

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“Sarahland” by Sam Cohen You’ve read the story, but there’s no forest here, no wolf. No subterfuge is necessary; the boys are everywhere, out in the...

They had been told to look for the body in an abandoned lot that straddled an unmarked frontier between gang territories. The area sat on the...

From LOLITA IN THE AFTERLIFE, edited by Jenny Minton Quigley. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division...

I’ve never successfully figured out what to do with pressed flowers. I don’t tend to save the petals of flowers I buy — and I’m a...

Sherry Thomas is an American writer of Chinese descent. She emigrated to the U.S. when she was 13, and learned English with the help of romance...

Audible Originals have come a long way since they were first launched nearly 15 years ago. The audiobooks’ quality has never been in question: it’s the...

This list of children’s books about flowers was originally published in our kid lit newsletter, The Kids Are All Right. Sign up for it here to...

Gather ye wordsmiths, ye logophiles and ye plain ol’ word nerds. It’s time to test your linguistic mettle with a Word of the Year quiz. Each...