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The Healing Power of Poetry: A Medicine as Old as Writing Itself
The history of poetry and the science behind poetry therapy, from Ancient Egypt to modern expressive writing studies and why verse heals what prose cannot. Poetry has treated grief, trauma and loneliness for four thousand years, and modern research now shows exactly why it works.
Ulrich Brugger's Eternally New Is a Contemplative Answer to the Self-Help Industry
After more than sixty years of writing, the founder of The Ojai Retreat has published a collection of aphorisms that sets itself against the formulas of modern self-help.
Christian Hurst Wins IPPY Gold as the Lily Starling Series Grows Into a Universe
Since April, Christian Hurst's Lily Starling series has added an IPPY Gold Medal, a Kirkus recommendation and an audiobook, with two more novels on the way.
Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble
In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.
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Traci Slatton spent nine years making HEROIC and found that hope is a discipline you build
Traci Slatton spent nine years filming HEROIC, the documentary on Sabin Howard's National WWI Memorial, on hope, legacy and building things that last.
Poetry by Season
A simple guide to the verse that suits each turn of the year, for the person who likes their reading to keep time with the light
Careless People: Sarah Wynn-Williams' Memoir revelling how the elite shaped world events
Sarah Wynn-Williams invented her own job at Facebook, then spent seven years watching it from the inside. Her memoir reads like literature and lands like testimony. The book gives you "a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them."
The Atrium Gallery: Change Is Human Work
Sustainability usually gets discussed at the altitude of policy documents and net-zero targets. LSE's Atrium Gallery has spent the summer making the opposite case, in portraits of the academics, professional services staff and students whose daily, mostly invisible labour is what sustainability actually looks like up close. It closes on 7 August.
How Kathy Taylor Turned Two Stays in Marburg Into an Autobiographical Novel
A retired professor wrote The Birthing House across two decades and two stays in the same German town. It is a novel about grief, language, and how writing returns a woman to herself.
The Compliant Cowgirl: Christa Jan Ryan's Cautionary Memoir of Love and Codependency
In her memoir The Compliant Cowgirl, Christa Jan Ryan follows a man to 1970s Wyoming, loses herself in the relationship, and writes the way back out of codependency.
Kenneth Bliss Writes Christian Fantasy Books for the Dungeons and Dragons Generation
The Michigan author maps tabletop RPG mechanics onto Christian theology across two books set in the same universe, targeting a niche that barely registers in search data.
Voyage of the Salamander: The Independent Space Opera That Just Won Three BookFest 2026 Awards
Christian Hurst writes his Lily Starling novels on evenings and weekends, between a day job in advertising and a house full of rescue beagles. This month one of them quietly took First Place in three categories at the BookFest 2026 awards, and it is one of the warmest, most character-driven space operas you will read this year.