Bronx High School of Science in the Bronx, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. My high school years leave fewer memories than the ones that preceded and followed them. Trying to avoid the ...

“Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.” So reads the 10th of “10 Rules of Writing” (2007) by Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), the New Orleans-born, Detroit-raised, Hollywood ...

It is called "My Childhood in Pieces." One of America's great poets has written a memoir that's haunting, engrossing and often a hoot. Let's ask Edward Hirsch to read one of his bits from "My ...

“Free Leonard Peltier.” The film is showing at this year’s Seattle International FIlm Festival (SIFF), which The Observer was granted access to cover. The following is a Q&A with Short Bull, which was ...