Sarah Begley

Young Theo (Fegley) gets an education from his mentor and caretaker Hobie (Wright).

Behind the Scenes of The Goldfinch, a Rare and Delicate Hollywood Specimen

On a March day on New York city's Upper East Side, producers huddle on the ...

On a March day on New York city's Upper East Side, producers huddle on the narrow first floor of an art gallery, studying their monitors and surrounded by pictures of flora and fauna. Eagles and...

Bill Gates speaks during the Lin-Manuel Miranda In conversation with Bill & Melinda Gates panel at Hunter College on February 13, 2018 in New York City.

Bill Gates Says This Book Is 'One of the Most Important' He's Ever Read

"Hans believed the world was making remarkable progress, and he wanted ever...

"Hans believed the world was making remarkable progress, and he wanted everyone to know about it."

Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama.

6 Books to Read in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death

From broad biographies to niche studies of elements of his life

Poet Tracy K. Smith at home in Princeton, NJ, on June 6, 2017

9 Questions With Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

The poet laureate's new collection, Wade in the Water, deals with race, lov...

The poet laureate's new collection, Wade in the Water, deals with race, love and the Civil War

Inside the classroom of teacher Jeff Foster at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school on March 7, 2018

Two Novels That Take On the Reality of School Shootings

Maybe you don't want to read a novel about a school shooting; many people w...

Maybe you don't want to read a novel about a school shooting; many people wouldn't. But if you are open, or even eager, to see how fiction can process one of the more painful elements...

This is Urrea’s fifth novel; his nonfiction The Devil’s Highway was a Pulitzer finalist in 2005

The House of Broken Angels Is a Love Song to the Mexican-American Family

When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into...

When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into Mexico. He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and a white American mother before moving just across...

A protestor outside a speech by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 7, 2018, in Sacramento

Jeff Sessions Blasts California's Sanctuary Laws as 'Radical, Irrational'

"California, we have a problem."