What to eat to boost your heart health

One nutritionist explains why fibre is a key weapon against cardiovascular disease and reveals how to build the perfect plate ...

Should you use a credit card travel portal?

Some credit cards come with travel portals, where you can redeem points and miles for trips. Is it the best option?
Wall Street Journal

‘The State and the Soldier’ Review: Washington’s Worthy Example

In March 1783 Gen. George Washington put down a conspiracy among some of his officers who wanted to mutiny against Congress. During the War of Independence, he agreed with his officers’ discontent ...
The Washington Post

‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’ was worth the very long wait

Seventeen years have passed since the publication of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s sensational debut collection of linked stories, “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.” A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the book ...
Dallas Observer

North Texas School Librarians Don’t Have 23,000 New Books They Want

In the old days, school library shelves were stocked by their keepers: highly skilled librarians, with years of training, usually a master’s degree and a great deal of knowledge of books and their ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Hannah Senesh’s example of Jewish pride and sacrifice gains renewed attention in our anxious era

New books and a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene play reclaim the poet-parachutist for an era marked by antisemitism and moral drift, writes a rabbi and author. More than 80 years after she ...
Los Angeles Times

Gish Jen and her mother never got along. In ‘Bad Bad Girl,’ she tries to figure out why

Trigger warning for any daughter who has ever had a fraught relationship with their mother: Gish Jen’s remarkable and heartbreaking latest book, “Bad Bad Girl,” may prompt a flood of feelings not felt ...
CBS News

Reese Witherspoon on how her new book "Gone Before Goodbye" redefines the female action hero

Reese Witherspoon is adding novelist to her résumé with "Gone Before Goodbye," a thriller co-written with bestselling author Harlan Coben that hits shelves Tuesday. The collaboration pairs the ...
The New York Times

Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem

Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses. By Michelle Cottle Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Vishakha Darbha Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala ...
Oregonian

‘Steiner Cabins’ book to preserve stories of the famous Depression-era log homes

Fans of the fabled Mount Hood log cabins hand built by the resourceful Steiner family take note: A coffee table book, expected to be released next year, will have photos and stories about the sturdy, ...
Military Times

Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years

Ships burn on Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row the morning of the Japanese attack. The battleship Arizona is in the foreground. (U.S. Navy/Naval History and Heritage Command) One man’s trash is the ...