The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

Celebrated South African author Zoë Wicomb has died at 76 in Glasgow, Scotland. Wicomb was known for her powerful stories on identity and South African life, including You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town.

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Bjorn Lomborg. Oh, the humanity, I sarcastically thought on reading the names and affiliations of 39 scientists behind a National Academies of Sciences, ...

Schools and libraries have been told to pull popular children’s books from shelves after a web address printed inside was hijacked by a pornography website. The link, found inside Andrew Cope’s Spy ...

A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right ...

Released on the heels of “One to One: John & Yoko,” the exquisite documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards, “Power to the People” makes for a worthy addition to the ongoing series ...

The publisher HarperCollins UK has said it removed "unverified" claims about First Lady Melania Trump from a recently published book and issued an apology. "HarperCollins UK recently published a book ...

On a Saturday evening in 1838, a young Illinois state legislator ascended the pulpit of his hometown Baptist church to deliver a lecture before the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum. Abraham Lincoln’s ...

Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse. In his novels and new book, Cory Doctorow asks whether technology ...

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After Damaris Hernández’s husband committed suicide, some of their acquaintances turned their back on her — for nearly a decade, in some cases. (Courtesy of author) They weren’t trying to be cruel.