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Kristin and John Anderson-Bricker moved to Dubuque in 1997. A professor of history at Loras College, Kristin teaches all United States hi...

“It’s as if I feel at home everywhere or nowhere at all?” Simon Muchat bares this telling sentiment near the beginning of the newly tra...

In one of the pieces in novelist Zadie Smith 's new essay collection, Feel Free , she writes that knowledgeable people -- educated peo...

Christina Baker Kline , author of the runaway bestseller Orphan Train , is back with a fine new novel, A Piece of the World . The impetus...

Ann's recent review of My Life in Middlemarch  by Rebecca Mead  gave me a case of déjà vu. I could swear that I had seen that cover some...

Crafts can be an amazing way to relieve stress. The creativity, the focus, the repetitive actions -- the entire process can create a calming...

It's a bit of a cliche that librarians are cat people , but it's definitely true that cats and libraries are a great combination. ...

I enjoyed the article "125 years of a LEGACY: Local artists, aficionados celebrate Grant Wood " by Tia Carol Jones in yesterday’s ...

Our July magazines of the month celebrate the culture and history of this great nation. The Smithsonian is a national collection of museums,...

Get inspired and explore your artistic side this spring! Carnegie-Stout has a broad collection of books dedicated to painting, woodworking,...

One of my favorite books from this year is The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan . One look at the beautiful cover showing a Degas p...

In one of my favorite passages from the graphic memoir A Chinese Life , young artist Xiao Li and his wife Fengfeng go to see old Bureau...

Sometimes books have surprisingly similar titles , and sometimes they have rather similar cover designs. Today we've gathered nine rec...