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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” These famous lines from Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus,” are engraved on the Statue of …

Everyone seems to be posting about book challenges. Maybe it’s the time of the year. I can’t keep up with all the books I want to read, never mind …

Literary inspiration takes many forms: William Wordsworth found it in nature; Samuel Taylor Coleridge found it in a draught of laudanum; Paul Bowles found it in Tangiers. But for …