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The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed the roots of the uncanny in the familiar, something that is altered just enough to ...

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We asked Curtis Pride, a deaf player who became a big leaguer, father and coach, how his experiences can help young athletes.

November is National Family Literacy Month, and Center McMechen Elementary School is promoting literacy by inviting in guests ...

The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the creation of the Children's Booker Prize. This new award will join the existing prizes for English-language and translated fiction.

I've been feeling a lot like that disheveled raccoon emerging from the dumpster, looking like he just went on a week-long bender. These stories are the antidote.

Just in time for the holiday season, the Mohawk Ambulance Service transformed one of its ambulances into a sleigh on wheels ...

(RNS) — Author Emily Stimpson Chapman discusses the pressures of rewriting the Bible, serving as a bridge between young Catholics and Scripture, and her new sense of being a spiritual mother. (RNS) — ...

Instead of policies that reduce crime, we get rhetoric of locking up 'bad children.' It's counterproductive and expensive, ...

The wife of a Red Sox clubhouse attendant who has been accused of sexually assaulting teenagers decades ago at the Youth ...