“An epic plot twist. A harrowing betrayal. A secret that jeopardizes everything,” Hart — whose new book “Brimstone,” the second book in the Fae & Alchemy series, is out now and available on Spotify ...

To commemorate Emily Dickenson’s 195th birthday on Dec. 10, after having visited her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, earlier this year, I recently read — and now recommend — “The Essential Emily ...

Texas will soon become the first state to adopt a mandatory list of books that must be taught at each grade level in classrooms statewide. The Republican-controlled State Board of Education on ...

Paul L. Morgan receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Institute of Education Sciences. Eric Hengyu Hu does not ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed,” Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote in 1933’s Modern Man in Search of ...

I’ve always been an avid reader. There was a time when I was constantly plowing through novels – Updike, Irving, Roth, Malamud, Atwood – plus occasional non-fiction, including all of Bob Woodward’s ...

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This list first appeared in HER Stories 2025, an annual special section that features Eastern Iowa women ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

An impressive amount of reading! Congratulations to Nathaniel Glynn for successfully completing the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program at Lepper Library. Nathaniel received a certificate of ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...