Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

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Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened bookstore. It’s in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood, far from its ...

Two St. John Fisher University students are bringing the gift of reading to Rochester city schools with a story all their own that is written in two languages. What ...

He ate and lived with the farmers, learning to use iron tools, mastering the Uygur language, and deeply adapted to the Uygur ...

A Navajo woman is trying to protect languages and bring families together. She is using her own busy books for little ones to make a big difference.

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

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Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

He is the author of many standalone crime and thriller books as well as several much-loved series, including the Amos Decker series featuring the eponymous FBI agent and the Atlee Pine series. Whether ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Algerian-French novelist Kamel Daoud holds his book Houris after being awarded with the Goncourt, France’s ...