Over a century ago the Parthenon lost its marbles to Britain’s Lord Elgin. Today, as the fumes of modern Athens work to complete the destruction, the ancient ruins remain the essential starting point for an art lover’s tour of... Read More

“I miss rainbows so much,” confesses Joanna, a blind musician, to a young girl she meets in a second-hand clothing store. Abby is in the shop reluctantly and feeling restless and bored while she waits for her mother to finish... Read More

“When the nights were hot, a mysterious world appeared in Baghdad,” recalls the author. Armed with wool mattresses and cool white sheets, Al-Rawi’s family and neighbors would climb onto their roofs to talk, laugh, and sleep under... Read More

Much of the focus during the 1904—1906 centennial celebration of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s 1803—1806 expedition across the western part of the unexplored United States went to their Lemhi Shoshone traveling companion,... Read More

Do not judge this book by its cover. Both the title and the hot pink artwork showing the author in a fluorescent day-glo wig were clearly chosen to catch the eye and to make it seem edgy and kicky and fun, and above all, unlike the... Read More

Children are as certain of magic as they are of reality, and they crave to be heard and taken seriously. Many adults, in turn, crave to recapture that youthful, confident belief in magic. Both these cravings are fulfilled in this... Read More

The rediscovery of forgotten women writers leaps ahead with this biography of a woman whose life defied the idealized domesticity that confined late Victorian ladies. Like the Brontës, she initially published as a man, but her... Read More