Celebrate Your Right to Read: Banned Books Week

In honor of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week (www.ala.org/bbooks), beginning September 21, the country will celebrate its essential, inborn freedom of reading literature. Banned Books Week highlights the profound importance of reading a book, yet it also draws…

Book Review: ‘I Kill the Mockingbird’ by Paul Acampora

When Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see To Kill A Mockingbird included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town…

The Film Canon: All the President’s Men (1976)

Some movies know they’re movies. If done well, they are aware that their job is to tell us a story, and invite us along for the ride. Whenever you hear a movie described as a ‘satire’, ‘parable’, or ‘epic’ –…