’A Friend for Henry” Henry is a little boy who keeps his arms close to his sides and doesn’t quite …
By Kathie Meizner, Abby McGanney Nolan and Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post Books Jun. 8, 2019 6:13 pm2313d ago
’A Friend for Henry” Henry is a little boy who keeps his arms close to his sides and doesn’t quite …
By Wendy Henrichs, correspondent Books Jun. 1, 2019 3:00 pm2320d ago
Local children’s and Caldecott Award Winning author Jacqueline Briggs Martin pairs up with the highly accomplished children’s illustrator Larry Day …
Katie Mills Giorgio Books Jun. 1, 2019 5:37 am2320d ago
It’s a safe guess you might get a ‘Boy, howdy,” greeting when meeting Craig Johnson. A best-selling author, best known …
By Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times Books May. 25, 2019 7:35 pm2327d ago
In need of summer reading? Bill Gates has some recommendations for you. In what’s become an annual tradition, the Microsoft …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Books May. 25, 2019 7:32 pm2327d ago
‘I’m done,” said Terry Brooks, one of the biggest-selling fantasy writers of all time, in a recent phone interview. ‘I …
By Carol Memmott, Washington Post
Books May. 25, 2019 7:23 pm2327d ago
In one of many can’t-look-away scenes in ‘The Paris Diversion,” a man wearing a suicide vest stops walking through the …
By Julie Depenbrock, Washington Post
Books May. 18, 2019 9:47 pm2334d ago
‘With the Fire on High” could have been a caricature. A teen mom raising a child in poverty, with her …
By David Silverberg, Washington Post
Books May. 18, 2019 9:39 pm2334d ago
Imagine a world without the Lorax, the Grinch, the delicacy of green eggs and ham and the word ‘nerd.” To …
By Connie Schultz, Washington Post
Books May. 18, 2019 9:08 pm2334d ago
Recently, Jill Biden was in a nail salon getting a manicure when a woman approached her and started to cry. …
By Ron Charles, Washington Post
Books May. 18, 2019 8:58 pm2334d ago
When Eve Ensler was 5, her father started sexually abusing her at night while she lay in bed. As she …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books May. 12, 2019 1:00 pm2340d ago
T.C. Boyle’s new novel, ‘Outside Looking In,” looks in on Dr. Timothy Leary and his adherents in the early 1960s …
By Ilana Masad, The Washington Post
Books May. 12, 2019 1:00 am2341d ago
In January of 1986, the space shuttle Challenger blew up 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members …
By Heller McAlpin, Washington Post
Books May. 11, 2019 10:35 pm2341d ago
Four years ago, a horrible accident shook my Upper West Side Manhattan neighborhood: A toddler sitting with her grandmother on …
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