Holland uses such events (twenty-one in all, one for each chapter) as entry points into the complex narrative of his book, which examines the role of Christianity in shaping the Western mind ...

In his novel “States of Emergency,” Chris Knapp doesn’t just tighten the distance between our inner lives and the world ...

In November, as required by state statute, the Florida Department of Education released a list of around 700 books that were "removed or discontinued" from public schools during the 2023-2024 ...

After a mysterious illness sweeps the world, normalcy is hard to come by in Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise. That’s especially true for her unnamed protagonist, a ghostwriter who is ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa Capitol Bureau) - The Iowa State Board of Education is finalizing the process that schools will use to ban books that depict sex acts from school libraries.

We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed a lot. So, too, has the music that helps give it color. With the speed of the ...

Billy Joel gives us hope. Against today’s pop music landscape, where posturing and production reign, where rhythm and rhyme rule, Billy Joel’s enduring popularity proves that melody still matters.

Clay County in Northeast Florida takes the top spot in the state for districts removing the most books last school year. According to a new report from the Florida Department of Education ...

Real estate mogul Ryan Serhant has revealed the simple mind trick behind his lucrative business empire, lifting the lid on the way of thinking that helped him to create a "billion-dollar business ...

Nov. 13 (UPI) --More than 700 books were removed from Florida school library shelves for the 2023-24 school year, according to the state Department of Education. The total is nearly two times the ...