"I taught Amy Tan for years, but decided I needed to do better," Hoffman said. "I needed to grow in my understanding of Asian ...

Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from his Nigerian ...

Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

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Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of “un-selving.” What the Dominican American poet and novelist means is that ...

Books by Louise Erdrich, Jesmyn Ward and others have interrogated the boundaries meant to contain us.

Banned Book Week highlights the surge in literature censorship. Learn about the impact on African-American stories and the ...

As the idea of using the Bible in classrooms gains traction, concerns about public schools' mission have led even some ...

So begins “Small Rain,” the new novel by literary sensation Garth Greenwell. It begins with a nameless narrator having a ...

(WIB) – Banned Books Week, recognized each September, was founded by library activist Judith Krug in 1982 as a protest to the increase in censorship of literature. Krug believed that bans on books ...

The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre ’s Latin Expressions returns this October in celebration of Latin American ...