Pi Beta Phi promotes literacy at Holt Elementary
Alabama’s chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority has partnered with Holt Elementary School to implement the six-week Champions are Readers (CAR) program, designed to help students enhance their reading levels.…
‘Ender’s Game’ a classic
Book lovers would be hard-pressed to find anything more perennially popular with science fiction/fantasy authors than dystopian governments doing horrible things to young children. Most recently, that trope has been…
Book explores limits of mind
Put away your half-started manuscripts and tragic hopes, creative writing minors. In an economy like ours, your chances of publication are bleak – unless, that is, you have unlimited access…
The Gormenghast Series
Four years in Tuscaloosa, and I’m beginning to despair that I am the only person on campus who has read Mervyn Peake’s “Gormenghast” series. I told myself last spring that…
Stockett’s ‘The Help’ creates tension after successful book and movie release
Of the 29 consecutive weeks UA graduate Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” has been on the New York Times Bestseller list, it has dropped out of the top 10 only seven…
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Do you think the city of Tuscaloosa is recovering at an acceptable rate after the April 27 tornado?
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