The youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. The first known Black female tattoo artist. And more, chosen by columnist.
The Kelce Brothers is a children’s biography from the “Little Golden Book” company, and it’s the fastest $5.99 I’ve ever spent. A robust 23 pages later I know precisely nothing I didn ...
After retiring as co-editorial director of Publisher’s Weekly in 2014, Michael Coffey read almost nothing but books by or ...
Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and ...
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
Leonard Mbotela, born in Mombasa in 1940, died in a Nairobi hospital after a broadcasting career spanning six decades. Famous ...
In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns ...
The first of three projected volumes of memoirs, the book has been in the works for at least a decade but arrives at an ...
Janis Ian will make her final public performance – at least for now – at RiverSong Music Festival this weekend. Ian, a living musical legend in real life and RiverSong’s Living ...