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Children from local military bases throughout the DC area were invited to a book reading and a chance to meet and interview National’s pitcher Sean Doolittle last weekend. Doolittle read the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are"…

“Once there was a cat called Mog. She lived with a family called Thomas. Mog was nice but not very clever. She didn’t understand a lot of things. A lot of other things she forgot. She was a very forgetful cat.” So begins Judith Kerr’s…

In 1939, at the age of thirty-five, Theodor Seuss Geisel was tinkering with an invention that was doomed to failure. Geisel had published a few books under the name Dr. Seuss, but he was hoping that a device he had patented, the…

“Picture,” by Lillian RossLillian Ross’s “Picture,” originally published in 1952 and now happily reissued by the New York Review Books Classics imprint, is an immensely enjoyable work about the immensely unenjoyable process of making a…

(Photos: Evans, Chaloner Woods & Jack Taylor/Getty Images; Illustration: Ian Hurley/Pacific Standard)They are bright, innovative, confident in their skills on all manner of digital screens and devices: This is Generation Z, many of…

Our latest poetry feature is “The Palace,” a long poem by Kaveh Akbar. Akbar, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson, is the author of…

I’m sitting in a small glass soundproof booth. A microphone, suspended from the ceiling, hangs in front of me. This is huge and round, like a luxury showerhead covered with fine metal mesh. Below it, on a slanting surface, lies the…