In May 2016, Eva Brann delivered a rather unusual commencement address to the graduates of St. John's College's Santa Fe campus. In it, she examined the optimistic, if naïve, refrains that recent ...
To celebrate the spring equinox, 1957, United States customs agent Chester MacPhee took to San Francisco and snatched up every single printed copy - 520 total - of Allen Ginsberg’s epic provocateur ..
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and ...
The kids can’t read. At least, that’s what reading just the headline of an Oct. 1 story by Rose Horowitch in The Atlantic would suggest. Titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” ...
By Alexandra Alter and Elisabeth Egan Our critic on November’s best new books. By Sarah Weinman Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century.
Yanely Espinal is the director of educational outreach for Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit working to ensure that every high school student gets a full semester of personal finance ...