The KUOW Book Club read "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" by Susana M. Morris this month. I'm your reading guide Katie Campbell. Morris joined me on Zoom recently to talk ...

In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...

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As a communication coach with over 20 years of experience, and the CEO of a communications training firm, there are few words I dread hearing more than "um." It's a useless sound, and if used too ...

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge. By Lea Carpenter Lea Carpenter is a novelist, screenwriter and lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.

Pamphlet “Common Sense,” 1776. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine proclaimed in the pamphlet “Common Sense,” his ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

When covid-19 hit, Jamieson Webster, a practicing psychoanalyst, volunteered as a palliative psychologist caring for the dying. Her hospital, like many, was divided into zones according to risk of ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

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Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...