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On rainy days, Reading’s sidewalks will shine with the creativity of young writers from the area. Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will ...
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The reliably accomplished John Niven’s latest novel is The Fathers (Canongate), a witty account of parenthood and masculinity ...
The Mahabharata contains stories within stories... just when you think you are all caught up, a new tale or an old one ...
Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...
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Tracing Japan’s story from its prehistoric beginnings around 14,500 BCE to its rise as a cutting-edge modern nation, the new release “The Shortest History of Japan” by author Lesley Downer offers ...
He's self-published six books, has paintings displayed on the wall of a local ... but the stuff that people who don't read the papers anymore, just listen to the radio or TV and get this very biased ...
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...