Good morning, Chicago. When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda today, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

I once wrote a musical play with a character who spoke almost exclusively in words beginning with “a.” The practice was, in ...

South Africa seal 10-wicket win in the second Test to win the series 2-0 despite Pakistan’s late fightback in Cape Town. South Africa seal their place in World Test Championship final with a two ...

A student of Shreveport’s Providence Academy became one of the first African Americans to serve as a clerk in the Railway ...

If you read all ten of these non-fiction titles in the next couple of months, you’d be 67% of the way to the average number ...

I once wrote a musical play with a character who spoke almost exclusively in words beginning with “a.” The practice was, in her own words, “awesome” and “awfully annoying.” Her appellation was Alpha.

The 2025 release calendar is murky but one question looms: Will Grand Theft Auto 6 actually come out this year? A studio ...

So when he began his career as a horror novelist some 11 years ago and was presented with the sad reality of the book tour — ...

Wisdom and intelligence aren’t synonymous, as any regular role-playing gamer will grasp. In Water Folk, various human and nonhuman characters chase after knowledge without fully understanding what ...

There are among the new titles released by Bay Area and Northern California writers, listed in alphabetical order by author ...