This year may have gotten off to a rocky start, but we're not even at halfway point, and already 2017 has been a kickass time for book-lovers. There have been outstanding additions to the feminist ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Lisa Ko’s novel “The Leavers” is based on a dirty secret in America — the large number of parents of color who are deported while their American-born children are kept in this country to be adopted by ...

The immigrant novel is a staple of American literature — after all, the American immigrant story is as old as the country itself. Classics like Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and “My Ántonia” by Willa ...

Lisa Ko's debut novel "The Leavers" tells the story of Deming Guo, whose mother Polly, an immigrant from China living in the U.S. illegally, disappears when he's 11 years old. Guo is eventually ...

John Kennedy is a journalist who served as editor of Silicon Republic for 17 years. His interests include all things technological, music, movies, reading, history, gaming and losing the occasional ...

Lisa Ko's debut novel "The Leavers" tells the story of Deming Guo, whose mother Polly, an immigrant from China living in the U.S. illegally, disappears when he's 11 years old. Guo is eventually ...