Zadie Smith is fearless. Her first short story collection, ‘Grand Union,” is a soup of contradictions served up with flair. …
By Lisa Page, Washington Post Books Nov. 3, 2019 1:02 am2165d ago
Zadie Smith is fearless. Her first short story collection, ‘Grand Union,” is a soup of contradictions served up with flair. …
Alison Gowans Food & Drink Oct. 28, 2019 3:25 pm2171d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – It took Joanne Karns 18 years to put together her cookbook ‘Comfort Food and All that Jazz.” …
By Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post Books Oct. 27, 2019 6:41 pm2172d ago
What is there left to say about a new John Grisham novel? Maybe only that Grisham has done it again. …
By Michael Cavna, Washington Post Books Oct. 27, 2019 6:23 pm2172d ago
By any measure in publishing, cartoonist Dav Pilkey is a rock star. The children’s author created his characters Captain Underpants …
By Brent Palmer Books Oct. 27, 2019 5:34 pm2172d ago
The Iowa City Council declared a climate crisis on Aug. 6, which called for ‘immediate and accelerated action” to decrease …
By Angela Haupt, Washington Post
Books Oct. 21, 2019 4:35 am2178d ago
The Olympic aspirations would come. But the first time Adam Rippon went ice skating, he just wanted to be like …
By Clint Watts, Washington Post
Books Oct. 23, 2019 6:16 pm2176d ago
About a year after I testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russia’s use of social media to interfere in …
By Pamela Miller, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Books Oct. 21, 2019 4:26 am2178d ago
When Malaysian-born anthropologist Long Litt Woon’s lodestar, her beloved husband Eiolf Olsen, fell over dead in 2010, she was left …
By Abby McGanney Nolan, Washington Post
Books Oct. 21, 2019 4:25 am2178d ago
At the end of this month, monsters of all shapes and sizes will roam the darkness – as well as …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Oct. 21, 2019 4:13 am2178d ago
Shaun Hamill’s debut novel, ‘A Cosmology of Monsters,” is perfect for reading in the run-up to Halloween. A smart, layered …
Books Oct. 13, 2019 7:45 pm2186d ago
When Melissa Sweet was asked to illustrate a book by Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander months ago, she said no. ‘I’ve …
By Nancy Clanton, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Books Oct. 6, 2019 2:21 am2193d ago
You fill it with soap and water about 300 times a year, so it must be clean. Right? A case …
By Norman Winter, Tribune News Service
Books Oct. 6, 2019 2:20 am2193d ago
Basil has stolen my heart as of late but it is probably not for what you think. It’s not because …
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