50 Books / HT50, Part 7: 2006-2010
The years from 2006 to 2010 brought us, among other things, the Large Hadron Collider, Bitcoin, and Instagram. They also brought a shocking financial crisis and the global Great Recession…
A comic-style book for young readers offers a delightful tour of the science behind animal immune systems
Children’s author Heather L. Montgomery was inspired to write the comic book-style middle-grade nonfiction Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as she wondered how animals…
50 Books / HT50, Part 6: 2000-2005
The books in this installment of the 50 Books / HT50 series are a varied lot — two novels, one nonfiction book, and two poetry collections, including a Pulitzer Prize…
Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, discusses the delicate art of writing about war
…Finalist and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, The Yellow Birds has been hailed by a host of literary luminaries as an instant classic. Ann Patchett called it…
50 Books / HT50, Part Three: 1991-1994
The third installment in our 50 Books / HT50 project features books from the first half of the 1990s, a period that saw the opening of the Tennessee Aquarium in…
