The New Kids

Forty-five different home countries, twenty-eight spoken languages, countless challenges, and a widespread commitment to overcoming them. That's what Brooke Hauser found when she spent a fascinating -- and instructive -- year chronicling the lives of the diverse students and dedicated educators at the International High School in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood where the immigrant dream struggles to come true.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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