Science fiction opens the mind to other ways the world could be.
Tag: Books and Literature
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What Mass Shooters Often Have in Common
Readers discuss the warning signs that can predict a mass shooting. Also: Self-publishing; calls for secession; floods and droughts.
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What Should High Schoolers Read?
Kaitlyn Greenidge and Esau McCaulley on why America’s schools can’t get on the same page about required reading lists.
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Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid It to Rest on the Page.
Decades after traveling without his parents from El Salvador to the U.S. as a 9-year-old — a journey that almost killed him — Zamora describes the experience in a memoir.
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Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79
A fan of Henry James and John Ashbery, he brought a poet’s sensibility to stories about ghosts, demons and other things that go bump in the night.