How parents and general readers can use their purchasing power to support diverse authors, alternative voices and a new generation of book-lovers.
Author and teacher Jane Kurtz talks about her work in Ethiopia, her new novel Anna Was Here, and the relationship between writing and teaching.
Profile of a new literary agency, Quill Shift, that seeks to bring writers of color into traditional publishing and prove their market viability.
My thoughts on reading a classic, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, as an adult and from the perspective of my novel's protagonist as well.
A review of The LEGO Movie and thoughts on creativity inspired by the movie.
Thoughts on the importance of freedom of expression, prompted by a PEN American Center celebration and the arrival of two members of Pussy Riot to the U.S.
I explain the idiomatic expression "thrown under the bus" using an example from the George Washington Bridge lane closing scandal.
My LEGO city, Little Brick Township, satirizes the multiple scandals surrounding New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
A Turkish pro-democracy activist describes how he uses LEGO to lampoon an increasingly repressive government and to let others know about the situation.
A cautionary tale on the importance of reading serves also as a call for New York City's new mayor to increase funding for the city's public library systems.