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Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

With a scope never seen before or since, the Manhattan Project—to develop and build the first nuclear weapons—was a major scientific and industrial undertaking. This is the story of the people who ...

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Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

Macauley infuses these vivid scenes from a doctor’s life with knotty reflections on the moral conundrums they pose. He grapples with the mystery of why God permits suffering and with the agonizing ...

Bari, a consultant who’s worked for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry for 30 years, offers an inspiring story of a woman who became very successful in her chosen field. In this narrative ...

Over the course of U.S.–Native American relations, too few people have remembered that the East Coast once abounded with Indigenous settlements. In the case of the Wampanoag, famed for their generous ...

The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ins and outs of reiki, framing it as a method of healing and rejuvenation—and not, she clarifies, as a kind ...

The author notes that she quickly learned, while working in a corporate setting, that the “workplace wasn’t a meritocracy; it was a chessboard” on which many Black women were never taught all the ...

Gould (Can’t Buy Me Love, 2007) begins his biography of art-rock legends Talking Heads with an account of the band’s first show at legendary New York club CBGB, writing that the performance didn’t ...