After some early critics accused the fourth-grade book of peddling myths, one of the seventh-grade book's authors, Williamsburg teacher Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones, defended creative storytelling.

Trying to control what kids read is a fool’s errand. Like Comstockery and Prohibition, it aims to make human beings into little saints. Ain’t never gonna happen.

The former Harvey Colored School sat forgotten in the woods after integration, until former student Annie Wilson Mosby relocated and restored it.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

Half Price Books is sweetening that deal with their Summer Reading Camp. Stop by any of the Seattle-area locations and pick ...

Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick for July is "Culpability," a family drama about the consequences of AI that she calls ...

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Oprah Winfrey picked "Culpability" by Bruce Holsinger as her latest book club selection. Winfrey said the novel explores ...

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Booked is a sweet little bookstore in Chestnut Hill. The neighborhood, known for its genteel sociable main drag on Germantown Avenue, parks, and friendly neighbors, once had a number of book sellers.