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A look at the fear of growing up in a doomsday cult and believing that, any day now, the world may end.

Millie Peck peckcami@grinnell.edu After attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and living in Iowa for nearly 10 years, Jerald Walker was hopeful to stay in the state and applied for a job at Grinnell College. Unfortunately, he was not awarded the position and is now a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. Walker returned to...

Millie Peck peckcami@grinnell.edu After attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and living in Iowa for nearly 10 years, Jerald Walker was hopeful to stay in the state and applied for a job at Grinnell College. Unfortunately, he was not awarded the position and is now a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. Walker returned to...

The Iowa City Book Festival returns in Iowa City from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13, featuring dozens of writers, poetry performances, book fairs and more.

The Iowa City Book Festival returns in Iowa City from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13, featuring dozens of writers, poetry performances, book fairs and more.

Oklahoma City and Ulyanovsk, Russia, became sister-cities in 1995, but the two municipalities have had little to no contact since.

AMHERST — On the Same Page, the community reading program put on by the Jones Library, is marking its 10th year with programs centered on “How to Make a Slave and Other Essays” by author Jerald Walker.The book, which focuses on how a Black professor...

AMHERST — On the Same Page, the community reading program put on by the Jones Library, is marking its 10th year with programs centered on “How to Make a Slave and Other Essays” by author Jerald Walker.The book, which focuses on how a Black professor...

Some of 2021s most acclaimed titles are making their way into paperback around now; here are six fresh ones, to make the spring come faster.

Jerald Walker, of Hingham, won The Nonfiction Award from the Massachusetts Center for the Book for "How to Make a Slave and Other Essays."