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In Madeleine Thien's speculative fiction about a climate-ravaged future, 7-year-old Lina learns from past voyagers and other ...

Mr. Goldfarb, a lawyer and author who prosecuted organized crime cases during the Kennedy administration and whose books ...

Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those ...

The statement said that, while the diagnosis “represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be ...

Censorship is an act of cowardice and a direct refusal of the mirror I hold up to the US’s racist past and present.

The Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records and data it finds ...

American novelists have often imagined presidents who seize power and defy the courts. Their lessons are sobering ...

Among Democrats on Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wields far more power than New York Rep. Alexandria ...

With all of the talk and coverage of the still upcoming book release from Jake Tapper on his revisionist history on the slide ...

It’s unbelievable what happened here,” Reed said, sometimes through tears. “All those activists who claimed to be activists ...

This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a ...