All these reflections led me to the late Gilda Cordero-Fernando’s illustrated retelling of an academic inquiry into the aswang in Bicol by the anthropologists Fr. Frank Lynch, SJ, and Fr. Richard ...

By Amanda Hess Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club. In their ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

The aswang paranoia was palpable. “Namamahay lang tayo (We’re just adjusting to our surroundings),” I joked, trying to lighten the mood, though I wasn’t immune to the jitters myself. To drown out the ...

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Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

Roger Lewis explores the historical injustices done to women throughout the Ancient history in Joan Smith's new book. The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson were some of the ...

In “Nationalism: A World History,” Eric Storm examines how nations became the dominant form of political organization of our era.

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