For Allison Epstein, author of the recently published “Fagin the Thief,” Fagin was the first Jewish character she encountered ...

Scottish journalist and author Andrew O’Hagan talks about why the social novel still matters- and why good books are as essential as protein.

Starmer, Reeves and Davie find themselves in hot water. Paul Connew reviews how the media has covered the crises confronting ...

Great Malvern was a favoured destination of luminaries including Dickens and Elgar, and continues to attract visitors ...

My struggle now, as it was when I was a child, is finding the works that excel without grading on a curve, works that aren’t ...

I don’t think I’m alone in this confusion. Similar responses emerge almost every time a new piece arrives with tales of elite college students who can’t get through Pride an ...

At Charles Dickens School, 3% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 12% scored at or above that level for reading. The school’s minority student enrollment is 98%.

It’s an exciting time for children’s comic books, featuring the likes of evil bagels, rebel fish and an adventurous mouse. Here are 25 gems that will put a spring in the step of your young ones and ...

That’s a striking change, but modest compared to what’s happened among teen-agers: the National Center for Education ...

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Joe Miller Hello readers, and welcome to the inaugural edition of Reason and Romanticism. You may have noticed that Library Lines hasn’t been around the last few weeks. Hallie Herold is now sole ...