Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

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A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

In Phen’s YA novel, a Mexican teenager discovers the value of devotion through an indelible bond with a loyal and resilient dog. In 1974, 14-year-old Ernesto lives in a modest home near Tijuana, ...

Three educators at different points in their careers navigate life and work in a small town in Culbertson’s novel. After an entitled parent accosts her in her prep school’s parking lot (“he shoved me ...

A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking. The author of several scholarly texts, Kahneman (Emeritus ...

All the reasons why a daughter needs a mother. Each spread features an adorable cartoon animal parent-child pair on the recto opposite a rhyming verse: “I’ll always support you in giving your all / in ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Featuring 287 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Maggie Stiefvater, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Medina, and J.D. Netto; and ...

A charming bird journey with the bestselling author. In his introduction to Tan’s “nature journal,” David Allen Sibley, the acclaimed ornithologist, nails the spirit of this book: a “collection of ...