Books Chapter & Verse
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Do book lovers live longer?
Regular book reading appears to promote a 'significant survival advantage,' says a Yale University study.
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Will 'Genius' bring new readers to the novels of Thomas Wolfe?
Read 'Look Homeward, Angel' today, and you can be forgiven for concluding that legendary editor Max Perkins didn’t cut out enough.
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Can Stephanie Meyer's new spy thriller match 'Twilight' success?
'The Chemist,' the first adult novel of 'Twilight' author Stephanie Meyer, follows the adventures of a former clandestine government operative who goes on the run.
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Is it easier for teens to get guns than books? Obama thinks so.
'We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer, or even a book,' the president said during an interfaith memorial service Tuesday for five Dallas police officers.
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Why I read 'Robinson Crusoe' every summer
The same way that some families go to the same mountain cabin, beach house or place by the lake each vacation season, every summer I find myself circling back to 'Robinson Crusoe.'
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Why I read a poem a day
Reading at least one poem a day has been like an intellectual vitamin, giving me a small dose of literature even on busy days when I can’t get to the novels and nonfiction on my nightstand.
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How Jimmy Carter became the best ex-president
Depressed and isolated after his loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, Carter found a new mission and changed the world
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NY tycoon, non-politician is Republican presidential nominee – in 1940
The US presidential campaign was strikingly similar to the crucial 1940 contest between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie. Historian Susan Dunn explains why.
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Why am I always hungry when I read?
I have come to connect reading with food – a bond that grows particularly strong in summer.
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‘Have you no sense of decency?' - who said it first and why
As Trump faces fire, a look back at the words that shook Joseph McCarthy.
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When they're shooting police in my hometown, can I go on reading?
Flannery O’Connor once said that, 'in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements and statistics, but by the stories it tells.'
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Ridley Pearson says inspiration, passion drove the writing of 'White Bone'
'Maybe four years ago, I read that your and my grandchildren will not see elephants in the wild,' Pearson told Monitor contributor Erik Spanberg. 'I kind of got passionate about it and I decided to make it the topic of [my] book.'
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August 14, 2016
Week two action at the Rio Olympics
The socks of Americans Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands are seen during play against Americans Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram during the tennis mixed doubles gold medal match on Sunday.
More Chapter & Verse
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How the 1976 GOP convention set Reagan on the path to power
The future president lost to Gerald Ford in nail-biter but emerged wiser and stronger.
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What Lee Smith can teach us about summer reading for kids
Smith read broadly and avidly as a child, and she seems to remember just about every book that she devoured.
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My dad and his books
Why books still matter – even (and maybe especially) in times of trial.
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How Catherine the Great became an ‘Empress of Art’
Historian Susan Jaques talks about the Russian monarch’s stunning legacy.
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What will my kids read this summer? I'm pretending not to care
An unspoken rule of our annual start-of-summer literary field trip is that there will be no fatherly homilies on the 'Importance of Reading.'
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How Smoke the donkey made an unlikely journey from Iraq to the US
In the midst of war, Smoke won hearts and earned himself a new job and a new home – thanks to a story by a Monitor correspondent.
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Why I can't let go of my magazine subscriptions
Yes, it's a nuisance when the stacks of yet-to-be-read magazines reach frightening altitudes. But sooner or later comes the day when I actually do read them.
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Inside the heartbreak of the Kent State shootings
Historian Howard Means, author of ‘67 Shots,’ explores the myths and realities of the 1970 Kent State shootings.
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No room for the urban poor? 'Evicted' author Matthew Desmond explains
Matthew Desmond explores the intense hardship connected with evictions, which have now become a regular occurrence in American cities.
