The Juneteenth block party brings the whole neighborhood together with food and games. Our 5-year-old narrator, hair adorned with twists, knows that everyone comes together on this day to “celebrate our freedom.” But what did the first celebration look like? The child turns to an older cousin, Katelin, who describes the first Juneteenth that she …
The Juneteenth block party brings the whole neighborhood together with food and games. Our 5-year-old narrator, hair adorned with twists, knows that everyone comes together on this day to “celebrate our freedom.” But what did the first celebration look like? The child turns to an older cousin, Katelin, who describes the first Juneteenth that she …
The author of A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear has written another droll account of oddball residents of New Hampshire, the land of living free or dying—and possibly contacting the living from the other side. The subjects of this book are a group of neighbors in Seacoast, on the relatively tiny New Hampshire shore who …
The author of A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear has written another droll account of oddball residents of New Hampshire, the land of living free or dying—and possibly contacting the living from the other side. The subjects of this book are a group of neighbors in Seacoast, on the relatively tiny New Hampshire shore who …
Fourteen-year-old Magnolia “Maggie” Gartner lives on the farm that’s been in her family for generations, ever since her tenth-great-grandfather, a Hessian soldier fighting for the British, settled in the New Jersey forests in 1776. He and his wife planted a linden tree that formed the heart of a magical garden. Pragmatic Maggie has meticulously chronicled …
Fourteen-year-old Magnolia “Maggie” Gartner lives on the farm that’s been in her family for generations, ever since her tenth-great-grandfather, a Hessian soldier fighting for the British, settled in the New Jersey forests in 1776. He and his wife planted a linden tree that formed the heart of a magical garden. Pragmatic Maggie has meticulously chronicled …
Early on in his memoir, Capehart, best known as a commentator for MSNBC and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post, writes of being known among his Southern cousins as “Mr. Peabody,” the bookishly bespectacled cartoon dog. “And I was a little ‘funny,’” he adds. “That was the gentler f-bomb used for someone believed …
Early on in his memoir, Capehart, best known as a commentator for MSNBC and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post, writes of being known among his Southern cousins as “Mr. Peabody,” the bookishly bespectacled cartoon dog. “And I was a little ‘funny,’” he adds. “That was the gentler f-bomb used for someone believed …
Falk explores themes of transience, memory, and grief in this book of poems rooted in nature. In the opening entry, the speaker’s muse informs her that she is unnecessary because the sky is a “stunning event” whose ever-changing inspiration is more powerful than imagination. In “It,” the poet describes a fleeting but blissful moment of …
Sophie Groenveld has finished her undergraduate studies in Toronto. She and her boyfriend, Marc-Antoine, are in York, England, a stop on their grand European tour. Sophie is here against her parents’ wishes, but she is on a mission. The only thing she knows about her mother’s background is that she was born and raised in …
