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How WriteGirl helps teens find their creative voiceGirls used to be told to be seen and not heard. Keren Taylor founded WriteGirl to inspire them to see聽their voice as valuable.
Hack your fridge: Delicious meals with less wasteMindfulness in the kitchen 鈥� from how to store food properly, to what to make from odds and ends in the fridge 鈥� will go a long way toward reducing waste.
Uncovering Shakespeare鈥檚 rare First Folios 鈥� paw prints and allFor literary forensics expert聽Eric Rasmussen, each Shakespeare First Folio is unique and loaded with history 鈥� from cat paw prints to bullet holes.聽
Please don鈥檛 buy my booksIt wasn鈥檛 until I set out to sell my old books that I realized the precious memories they held.
How the women鈥檚 movement transformed societyThree recent books explore the contours of the second-wave feminist movement, from titan Betty Friedan to the editors and readers of Ms. Magazine.
鈥楢bsolution鈥� asks if 鈥榙oing good鈥� can cover for lack of empathyAlice McDermott鈥檚 novel 鈥淎bsolution鈥� probes issues of duty, charity, and complicity among a group of American expat wives in 1960s Vietnam.聽 聽
How cats teach their humans to be 鈥� well, more humane鈥淭he Goodbye Cat,鈥� Hiro Arikawa鈥檚 follow-up to 鈥淭he Travelling Cat Chronicles,鈥� celebrates the unbreakable 鈥� and sometimes unearthly 鈥� bonds between felines and their adoring owners.聽
Courage, justice, and fortitude: Our favorite October readsFrom Beirut to Florida, characters embroiled in quests for justice 鈥� for themselves and others 鈥� search for light and progress in this month鈥檚 10 best books.聽
Politeness or civility? Alexandra Hudson untangles the difference.What place do simply good deeds have in our society? In 鈥淭he Soul of Civility,鈥� Alexandra Hudson argues that they鈥檙e indispensable.聽
鈥楾he Heaven & Earth Grocery Store鈥� weaves a tale of love and communityIn his triumphant novel 鈥淭he Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,鈥� James McBride explores the appeal and elusiveness of the American dream.聽
Women war correspondents marched to their own drummerTwo reporters 鈥� Jane Ferguson and Dickey Chapelle 鈥� covered separate conflicts in different eras, but both were driven by the need to 鈥済o see for themselves what was happening.鈥�
Anna May Wong blazed a trail for Asian actors in HollywoodChinese American actor Anna May Wong defied racism and bias through persistence and determination. 鈥淒aughter of the Dragon鈥� tells her story.
Banning books: Protecting kids or erasing humanity?The most banned titles this school year include 鈥淭ricks鈥� by Ellen Hopkins, 鈥淭he Bluest Eye鈥� by Toni Morrison, and 鈥淟ooking For Alaska鈥� by John Green.
Amy Palanjian on feeding kids and laughing more at the dinner tableFrom planning meals to managing different tastes, feeding kids is a monumental challenge for many families. A new book, "Dinnertime SOS," tries to ease the load.聽
Going medieval: A novelist discovers her museNicola Griffith talks about writing a fictionalized account of the woman who emerged from violent, war-torn, seventh-century Britain to become St. Hilda of Whitby.聽聽
Difference MakerChildren need to see themselves in books. Enter Young, Black & Lit.What if you went to the bookstore and saw no one on the shelves who looked like you? One couple is addressing that deficit for young Black children, supporting literacy and identity.聽
CommentaryWhy do they hate us? Lehane鈥檚 latest novel helped me answer that.Often, community involves a sense of belonging. But our contributor sees in Dennis Lehane鈥檚 new novel,聽鈥淪mall Mercies,鈥� that belonging can become a trap if not tempered by openness to others.
Truth, forgiveness, and exploration: 10 best September readsIn our favorite books for this month, characters discover much about themselves through their relationships 鈥� along with quests for truth.
To explain Jerusalem鈥檚 conflicts, she wrote a young adult novelJournalist Ruth Marks Eglash talks about her debut novel, 鈥淧arallel Lines,鈥� a poignant account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict told through the eyes of three teenage girls.聽- In two memoirs, authors of color meditate on birding and identityTwo authors, one Black and one Native American, explore the complex ways their love for birding is mediated by racial identity.
