Connecting across generations can be tough, even in the same family. This is at the heart of Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. This week, we're bringing you an episode from NPR's Books We Loved ...

This article was originally published in Maine Morning Star. There were two crates waiting for Valerie Smith, an elementary school librarian, when she arrived at the Sanford School Department’s ...

Restless Books’ Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature, formerly the Prize for New Immigrant Writing, announced the finalists for the 10th iteration of the award at an event at Manhattan's Tenement ...

Since 2006, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has issued a series of comic books titled “Great Immigrants, Great Americans ...

Adults immigrate for myriad reasons, and often with gains for future generations in mind. But from a child’s perspective, immediate losses dominate. “All these choices are made for us—as refugees, as ...

The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.” By Anderson Tepper The novelist Dinaw Mengestu thinks deeply about how ...

This Mother's Day, many of us will also be thinking about our grandmothers, great-grandmothers and ancestors. The connection between grandmother and grandchild is at the heart of "Memory Garden," ...

Saturday at the Woodrow Wilson Library in Falls Church dawns with trouble: A class in Microsoft Word is packed, and three of the seven terminals in the tech room are down. But when they arrive ...

A Venezuelan New York poet whose tattoo represents the grief of losing her mother reflects on how it might be weaponized against her, a Mexican American poet and entrepreneur remembers that his mother ...

ROME (Reuters) - Seven years ago, Dagmawi Yimer was "between life and death" when Italian navy officers rescued him and 30 others from a skiff in heavy seas between Libya and the island of Lampedusa.

Extensive polling shows the vast majority of Americans do not agree with the way our new presidential administration is running things, and if you're one of them, it's easy to feel like you have no ...