"An apple got Adam and Eve thrown out of paradise. In Linda Joan Smith’s glowing debut novel, a peach shows a 13-year-old girl the way in." I escaped the news for a little while and wrote about THE PEACH THIEF, a lovely middle-grade novel set in 1850 in Lancashire, for the New York Times Book Review. Highly recommended. Read More at The New York Times Book Review »
Journalism
As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life
My latest for EdSurge: "A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities, aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, they’re very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors." Read More at EdSurge »
War and Remembrance: New Novels by Lois Lowry and Gayle Forman
How ‘housewife’ became an insult
What Brings Gen Z to the Library?
"Young people look to libraries to provide safe places to hang out and to access resources like free Wi-Fi, makerspaces, and tech equipment — expectations they carry with them to college." Read More at EdSurge »