The proposal, which is set to receive a preliminary vote as early as next week, is part of a novel push to mandate texts at ...

An upcoming vote by a Texas board will decide whether public school children across the state will be required to read ...

Anyone who loves George Saunders’s writing can tell you about his wicked imagination: luminous, dark, wholly original, and quite frequently supernatural. Saunders is, after all, the man who gave us ...

Ex-Alder Claudia Herrera and current Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith led a team of city officials to the corner of Market and ...

Texas public schools may soon require students from kindergarten through 12th grade to read selected Bible passages as part of a new statewide English classroom reading list being considered by the ...

I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

Fantasy epics, pastoral classics and family dramas provide something to sink your teeth into on cold evenings.

The Texas Education Agency is proposing a lengthy list of books, Bible passages and other literary works that would be ...