Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

The University of Iowa earned national recognition from the Carnegie Foundation for its commitment to statewide community involvement.

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Pulitzer Prize work of fiction that despite a rather far-fetched plot really “operationalizes” and brings to life the social system described by Robert Collins work on Songbun. Probably one of the ...

Everyone knows that Magneto is one of the strongest mutants in the Marvel Universe, but does the X-Men enemy (or sometimes ...

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The French fashion house hosted a private screening of "Coutures" at its Paris headquarters, located Rue Cambon, where the film shot. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Paris Fashion Week, ...

New books and a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene play reclaim the poet-parachutist for an era marked by antisemitism and moral drift, writes a rabbi and author. More than 80 years after she ...

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has announced plans to fight antisemitism in New York City using a curriculum that seems to contradict his own views on Israel. The “Hidden Voices” program, reviewed ...

Update Published Oct. 2, 2025: This article, originally published in 2024, has been updated to reflect the latest findings in PEN America’s banned books report, “Banned in the U.S.A.” The list at the ...

Paul Thomas Anderson utilized VistaVision to make his latest movie, “One Battle After Another,” which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a bumbling, washed-up revolutionary trying to save his daughter Gregory ...

Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses. By Michelle Cottle Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Vishakha Darbha Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala ...