In fiction, the frontier typically represents freedom. In Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, the frontier is nothing but a prison in which the inhabitants trap themselves. The Nightingale is set ...

carried the spirit of freedom. He wrote those words with the shaft of a flight feather, carved at the tip into a writing instrument called a quill. One can imagine its feathered shaft swaying as ...

“We need to basically unlearn a lot of the things that we have normalized and [realize] that a new way is possible,” says award-winning author Rahiel Tesfamariam. In her new book, “Imagine ...