Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Christina Perri is adding another hyphen to her title as she becomes an author with her new ...

A new children’s book from PJ Library tells the story of how three Jewish staffers brought Passover to the White House.

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

America needs "third places" like our libraries more than we ever have, both functionally and philosophically.

EDWARDSVILLE - The reading voices ran the scale from sounding strong to resolute, excited to pensive, and were punctuated ...

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Scholar Nancy Reddy exposes the flawed — and misogynistic — social science behind outdated notions of motherhood in her new ...

Sociologist Eve L. Ewing joins The Excerpt to discuss her new book “Original Sins,” which argues that schools enforce racial hierarchies.