The image of teenage life has grown dark and distorted in our modern, Western imagination. We can see this particularly in the stories found in the genre of Young Adult fiction. In the last decade […]
Deep down, human beings know we’re made for something epic. In recent decades, successful Young Adult novels captured this truth in a variety of forms, from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series to Rick Riordan’s Percy […]
On May 18th, 1864, Confederate forces at the Battle of Spotsylvania repelled the Union army with a devastating hail of fire. The storm of grapeshot, bullets, and artillery left the Union army literally in pieces: […]
“Life is very complicated, and only God knows.” With these words, the hero of José Luis Olaizola’s General Escobar’s War might well be summing up his own unusual life and career. For life is complicated […]
St. Augustine of Hippo knew firsthand the agony of a broken heart. His account of sending away his faithful concubine sears the pages of his famous autobiography, the Confessions. He writes that the woman with […]
What do we love about a good mystery novel? Ever since Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction in 1841, mystery writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dean Koontz have offered […]
Mankind has been playing chess for over 1,500 years. To many of us, chess may seem like just a pastime or an exercise for the brain. But this age-old war-game in fact offers five practical […]
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