Lists of the books included in curricula show middle school students are expected to read four to seven books in a school year.

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera.

An armade of amateur snake hunters descend on the Florida Everglades to kill pythons for money. What could possibly go wrong?

W hat was the Vietnam war? A “quagmire”, as one historian called it? A “commitment looking for a justification”, as a 1960s ...

Unlike its loose and baggy predecessor, the new compendium is built around a single goal: to promote the unglamorous act of maintenance, or “the whole grand process of keeping a thing going.” It also ...

Louise Erdrich was getting help with her computer when her daughter discovered something on the hard drive. A short story. “‘Love of My Days’ was a forgotten file in my computer, and when I found it ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

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Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

Local author Kathy Keppel-Colkitt, who created a book series on effective advocacy during crisis, plans a publication launch on Saturday. She just released her third publication, “Effective Advocacy,” ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

These are challenging times by any metric, but here’s something that’s also true: 2026 is shaping up to be a great year for books. Some of our most talented writers are delivering novels, nonfiction ...