Marking the 30th anniversary of the nonprofit Literary Arts in Oregon, this collection of 10 lectures from celebrated writers reanimates the humanistic argument that, far from being a “marginal ...

NC Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson speaks to the crowd at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Greensboro, NC on March 2, 2024. It’s rare for North Carolina political ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of groundbreaking baseball legend Jackie Robinson is again being targeted by the anti-DEI policies put in place by the ...

What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...

Who doesn’t love Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead—or even more, her first novel, Housekeeping? Yet better than her fiction, for my tastes, are her brilliant essays, which reveal that she should be ranked ...

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 ...

Spending a Saturday listening to authors discuss their work while you have lunch and talk with other readers sounds pretty good right about now. That’s what’s happening tomorrow at the Pasadena ...

Reading like an edgier version of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, this faux guide to the jungle offers advice for Indiana Jones wannabes. The prim narrator directly addresses the hero, a boy dressed in ...