Category: News

“The Poison Pen” by Thomas Beer

Jordan Bace, Second, was dreaming of strawberry shortcake piled with fine sugar and dripping redly when the afternoon mail reached

It's Time To Ask Deeper Questions About School Shootings

To what extent does school — through things like athletics, homecoming royalties, or dances — encourage what some political scientists

Dunby and Drenston: A Yorkshire Wager

Dunby lived in a trailer on a hill in the Yorkshire moors, in the north of England. At the time

Netanyahu’s Corbyn problem

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking via live video conference at Washington Summit of Christians United for Israel. July 23, 2018. Michael Brochstein/Press

Nothing but the Truth

My Uncle Lyle Sims came home from World War II in the spring of 1946, six months after the war

A homophobic man burned LGBT books at a gay pride festival and it backfired perfectly. 

Paul Dorr, from the religious group Rescue the Perishing, had the least amount of fun at the Orange City Pride

2015 Great American Fiction Contest Winner: “Omeer’s Mangoes”

IIn the decades that Omeer had lived and worked across from Bryant Park, everything had changed for them both, for

This simple act of kindness filmed on a train is going viral – can you spot what it is?

Blowing up on Reddit today is this short – but beautiful — gif of an unidentified young man on the

What the ‘Drone Wolf’ tries to teach us

FILE PHOTO dated 25/2/2017 of a drone and an aircraft. John Stillwell/Press Association. All rights reserved. As I am writing,

The world needs rom coms more than ever.

Is the rom-com recession over? The much-maligned romantic comedy is creeping back onto our screens. Crazy Rich Asians has now