Kam Reads and Recs

Children's summer reading programs aren't just challenges, but celebration of literacy, summer holidays, and of libraries themselves.

When the sewers of Paris get clogged with putrid waste, they're sometimes cleaned the same way they were over a century ago: with a giant, r

A rare archive reveals how Ireland’s Jewish community navigated identity, culture, and rising antisemitism in the 1930s.

In the nineteenth century, empires fought over science and resources and land. But they also fought over poetry. “The Americans,” John Quinc

In 'Silent Friend,' Tony Leung's scientist wonders whether plants are communicating with us — and whether we can communicate back. But how m

Sapphire discusses the life and work of poet, activist, publisher, performer, and Black Arts Movement innovator Jayne Cortez.

When the first massively popular reality TV shows hit the air in the early 2000s, I remember thinking in my naïveté: Surely this is just a p

Pieve Santo Stefano is Italy’s memory bank.

William and Francis Buckland saw Noah's Ark as a dinner menu.

In these thrillers about marriage, you'll find narratives of infidelity, revenge, and even serial killers living in suburbia.

When I was writing Blue Ticket, at various points I thought about the works that had shown me what speculative fiction was really capable of

The ideological roots of the concept of militias in America stretch back into English history.

Natalie took my class in The Ethics of Public Biography at the CUNY Grad Center while she was getting her MFA at Brooklyn College. It was a

These are the best comic books published in the 21st century so far.

A spokesperson said there was no present danger to the public at the museum, which is located in one of three zip codes where people have co

Portraits, illustrations, cartoons, and signs pay tribute to the Mexican immigrant and father of three who was fatally shot in his car on hi