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Junot Diaz's 'Islandborn': A pitch-perfect children's book

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March 26, 2018

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Junot Diaz's 'Islandborn': A pitch-perfect children's book — plus more kids' books reviewed

Wednesday, Mar 21

In the splendid "Islandborn" by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, an immigrant reimagines the homeland she can't recall. 

Blue Balliett's 'Out of the Wild Night': With a splish and a splot and a shree, here comes a ghostly whodunit with heart

Balliett has concocted her best novel yet, a story that blends deft wordplay, scintillating adventure, a provocative mystery, an emphatic plea for historic preservation — and a determined PR campaign on behalf of ghosts.

How UIC's Luis Alberto Urrea became the literary conscience of the border

A look at Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "Devil's Highway" and "The Hummingbird's Daughter"

The Biblioracle: College for all or defund education? Two opposing views on fixing the broken system

John Warner considers arguments for higher ed reforms outlined in "The Case Against Education" by Bryan Caplan and "The New Education" by Cathy Davidson.

Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier's debut poetry collection "Whereas" makes transparent a history of Native Americans that is tragically opaque.

'Visionary Women': New bio explores lives of Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs and Alice Waters

In her lively new biography, Andrea Barnet makes a compelling case that these women "changed our world."

John Oliver spoofs Pence family's new kids' book with gay-themed 'Marlon Bundo' book

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver said that he is releasing a politically pointed sendup of the Pence book, titled "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo."

'The Flight Attendant' is, yes, the perfect airplane read

"The Flight Attendant" opens with a doozy - dare I say a killer? - of a hangover scene.

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