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“PLEASE, WRITE A GOOD PROPAGANDA PIECE on the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea,” Kim, one of my two minders, pleads with me (i.e., strongly recommends) when we separate at Pyongyang airport after a week together. Having spent his entire life saturated...

In advance of the print debut of SLJ’s Popular Picks in the April 2016 issue, SLJ editors have chosen must-have works for kids and teens that appeared in the February 2016 issue. Picture Books Cabrera, Jane. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe...

When the world is watching and you're camped out in a car beside an abandoned quarry somewhere you're not exactly sure and you're wearing a tinfoil hat and eating canned peas with a homeless guy and neither of you smell very good at all, well, this is...

The best games money can’t buy The days when you had to buy a dedicated gaming rig and spend a load of cash for a quality gaming experience are long gone. Thanks to the iPhone (and iPod touch) and the App Store, you can get an excellent mobile gaming...

***Silver Medal Winner*** 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards plus 32 rave reviews! Fans of Nick Hornby, Jonathan Tropper  and Tom Perrotta will love this smartly comic novel about one man’s fumbling, funny, emotionally raw year of relearning...