In France, one of the first famous bearded ladies was Clémentine Delait: Being hirsute from an early age, she simply shaved until she and her husband visited a traveling circus. On spotting an inferior specimen of a hairy gal, she... Read More

Teachers, those great observers of the young, are aware of the poetry people carry inside them. Therefore, it’s appropriate that the editor, a teacher herself, assembled this anthology of poems written by teachers about teaching.... Read More

It is not enough anymore to train hard and smart or get enough sleep to get ahead of the pack in the world of competitive athletics. Even the notion of “eating right” and maintaining a proper diet has become a complicated science in... Read More

The articulate accented and rhythmic narration of Robin Miles brings a new dimension to this read-along version of a beloved classic African tale of greed and pride, a variation of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale about “The Unkind... Read More

A soul is as resilient and as sure to return as a soccer ball tossed back into the field of play: this sublime metaphor for a West African concept of the soul’s endurance livens up the collection of essays on African cosmology.... Read More