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"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" sang the witches of Macbeth, but what is the mantra of the anti-Christ? Imagine knights in armor covered with shit, fighting for a world in which everyone has the right to fuck each ove...

That's the theme of this year's National Library Week, an annual awareness celebration sponsored by the American Library Association. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may...

U.K. mom Katie Blackburn loves Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are so much that she named her son after the protagonist Max. Now she's paying tribute to the classic children's book in another creative way.Blackburn is the author of Where...

By Leora Bernstein | Off the ShelfLife is hard, and sometimes you just need to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Lucky for us, recent years have seen a slew of books from funny-girls and funny-guys that have left us shaking with sidesplitting laughte...

For centuries, libraries have simply been places that house books. This meaning of the word is embedded right within it; the Old French librairie, used in the 14th century, means “collection of books.” An image of dusty stacks comes to mind, but,...

(Randy Radic contributed to this review)"The end goal of corrections is enhanced public safety, not enhanced punishment for punishment's sake."The above quote is from Christopher Zoukis, the author of College For Convicts and the just released Prison...

Publishing, whether we are paid for it or not, is always an act of sharing. I have a story, and I'd like to share it with other people. It is not accurate to say I am giving the story away. It is not as if the story is a single copy of a book and I a...

Everyone wants to do or be Good. Even those who are doing Bad think they are doing Good. For instance the two inmates who defied all the odds and broke out of the Clinton Correctional Institution in Dannemora undoubtedly felt they were doing Good, no...

The Way of the Mysterial Woman: Upgrading How You Live, Love, and LeadBy Suzanne Anderson, MA and Susan Cannon PhDNo matter how I say this, I will sound like that annoying friend who is trying to sell you fake eyelashes or buttery leggings, but liste...

Yesterday, various news outlets confirmed what post-racial turducken Rachel Dolezal alluded to in her recent interview on the Today show. She did indeed receive a deal to pen a book about race.-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huf...

Holidays give families a chance to gather, reflect on the last year, and create new memories. At least that is the ideal version of the concept. Brenda Janowitz's lovely and fast-paced novel, The Dinner Party, captures a much more realistic view of t...

If you're anything like us, you love a good bookish T-shirt (or scarf, or tote, or whatever). The only problem with our stash of shirts emblazoned with F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes and Harper Lee references, of course, is that it makes the rest of us a...

Two girls lounge on a picnic blanket, basking in the sun. It’s clear that they’re intimate friends, if only because they’re comfortable lazing around wordlessly together. They’re sharing a box of donuts, chomping unabashedly on doughy chocola...

Want to know one habit ultra-successful people have in common?They read. A lot.In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowl...

Who could adequately embody the Grinch’s “comedic wickedness” while capturing the Dr. Seuss villain’s charm and appeal? According to the makers of the upcoming animated "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" remake, the man for the job is Doct...

"You get the politics that you deserve." Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Ford here speaks bluntly of the interplay between politicians and the public in America, arguing that people can only blame themselves for being lied to by politicians.For...

Some of the greatest atrocities have been perpetrated in the name of the good. Certainly the Inquisition was one of these. In The Grand Inquisitor section of The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky describes the condition of Christ being brought before the...

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The top 10 most challenged books for 2015 includes an entry that may seem unlikely for the United States, which is home to more Christians than any other country in the world. According to the American Library Association's latest "State of Amer...

Book Review - Jackie K CooperTHE KING WHO MADE PAPER FLOWERS by Terry KaySome books are written with words that are harsh and dark; others with phrases that are tender caresses. Terry Kay's THE KING WHO MADE PAPER FLOWERS is written with words and ph...

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