Literary Reflections

If you love books which transport you back in time, weave a story around the lives of medieval kings and queens, or recount the harrowing journey and integration of immigrants…

Jackson’s demons were clearly bigger and more terrifying than the conventional ones of balancing writing and childrearing. Yet she managed to give space and import to those smaller moments of…

But over the last year or so, no matter how engaging the book, I could never get through more than two or three pages before he’d decide that was enough.

I had driving questions: How much caregiving can any one woman do without breaking down? Why do women seem so often to be the caregivers? What becomes of us when…

We’re focusing on crime, mystery and scary stories in this month’s Essential Reading recommendations. So if you like your reading material with some added tension, thrills or downright hair-raising horror,…

With the back to school season in full swing we asked our staff to recommend their favorites books from that time and got a mixed bag of reads which we…

Just when I think I have all my essays dressed and ready, I’ll discover that one isn’t actually ready at all—and another is wandering off.

In honor of Father’s Day, in this month’s Essential Reading we are featuring books by male authors writing about life, parenting, and coming of age.

For me I realized, Jolabokaflod was an extension of a language I had been speaking with both passion and conviction my whole life. Jolabokaflod is about speaking book.

But that morning, I felt something sweeter than being needed. My little girl was taking wing and exploring her way through a world of images and words, independent of me.

We are exploring the many colors of mothering with our reading recommendations this month with an “in the trenches” novel that will make you laugh out loud, an anthology of…