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November 26, 2024 • On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review a unique collaboration involving the celebrated poet Naomi Shahib Nye, Ann Alejandro, and our own Marion Winik: "I Know About ...

full of fun on every page, Mischa Berlinski’s “Mona Acts Out” is an early literary delight of 2025. Marion Winik is a Baltimore-based professor and writer. Mona Acts Out ...

In the gorgeous posthumous collection of her work, I Know About a Thousand Things, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik, Alejandro’s dynamic voice is clear. She offers advice: “It is very ...

November 26, 2024 • On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review a unique collaboration involving the celebrated poet Naomi Shahib Nye, Ann Alejandro, and our own Marion Winik: "I Know About ...

Marion Winik: “Behind You Is The Sea” is your debut novel – can you explain how it differs from the previous collections of linked stories? Susan Muaddi Darraj: Initially, I did try to write this book ...

We sang Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” at my eighth-grade graduation in suburban New Jersey in 1971. It ruined the song for me for decades. That said, I have always loved Mitchell.

South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year. Bowman, who was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., was on Death Row for ...