“The brain” began three decades ago, when an up-and-coming junior college baseball coach from Southern California found himself with a Division I program for the first time. To George Horton, becoming ...

John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page. By Elisabeth Egan Elisabeth Egan is an editor at the Book Review and the author of ...

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It wasn’t just an ordinary notebook — it was a brand-new notebook, and it took me a while to understand my appreciation for it. As I watch the yellow buses take to the road each morning and again each ...