In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals. By Jennifer Szalai Blending autobiography with ...

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I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

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Rust enters the top 10 for the first time, Python keeps the lead, C moves back above C++, and SQL edges out R in July’s rankings update. Rust has entered the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in ...

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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations ...

A Song of Ice and Fire has been solidified as a defining work of fiction over the past 30 years. George R.R. Martin’s fantasy book saga ascended into the zeitgeist through an ongoing series of ...

Whether you recognize it or not, you're always reading on the golf course: your putts, the wind, the lie, your opponent's reactions. Reading is, indeed, fundamental for a golfer on the course, but it ...