In his debut,” Belle and Sebastian singer Stuart Murdoch tells a coming-of-age story that mirrors his own. Set in the early ...

These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cardinals catcher Ivan Herrera speaks with the media on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, after a series-ending win over the Angels at ...

"I'm a baseball player," 12-year-old Timothy "Pumpsie" Strickland declares. "Baseball is my life." In Andrea Williams' new ...

Almost every protagonist in literature is lonely. Charlotte Brontë's character Jane Eyre (in the novel Jane Eyre), Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet (in Pride and Prejudice), Charles Dickens’ Pip (in ...

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The cravenness of intellectual elites is one of America’s saving graces. They may self-righteously advance incendiary ideas about race, gender, politics, ...

“The Road” is not a happy story. Amid the violence and the starvation, Father does his best to give Son the best life he can. He teaches Son what it means to be a “good guy” or a “bad guy.” He does ...

John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, it filled him with limitless excitement.

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Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

“The Fountainhead” is a compelling literary work, providing dimensional commentary on mass conformism and the contrasting radical individualism. It is certainly worth reading for anyone interested in ...