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Benson Lossing’s A History of the United States was checked out in 1927 and returned this month

"I, as a father, feel a huge responsibility to ensure that I don't pass on any traumas or negative experiences I've had"

NONFICTION: Author Katie Spalding is a kind of Bill Nye on steroids, making arcane science fascinating and fun.

CHICAGO — Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park, Illinois, and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of theaters in plays he created and now, finally, between covers in a spectacular book dedicated to the…

NONFICTION: Rachel Louise Snyder describes troubled youth and finding herself in travel, reporting.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan and Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang.

Louise Minchin returned to BBC Breakfast on Wednesday almost two years after she stepped down from the show

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious