When I first launched Twenty by Jenny back in April, I mentioned that some of my favorite memories of growing up involved my brother and me ...

I’ve just returned from a two-day silent retreat on the Hudson River. I try to do this once or twice a year. Every time I go, I’m amazed by ...

The best fantasy stories take us to a place that, at face value, seems completely unlike our own, and then create just enough parallels to a...

The Lleshi family’s story in Katherine Paterson’s novel The Day of the Pelican seems especially appropriate at this Thanksgiving time, when...

What you notice first about Jerry Pinkney’s The Lion and the Mouse is the beauty of this foreign land. The acacia trees, the many different...

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In Leviathan , Scott Westerfeld takes a real situation—the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who advocated for peace—and follo...