In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to multiply and be fruitful. But single people fill the Bible, and so do the childless.

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This Ames author set her newest novel in Ames and Chicago.The characters are empowered and protected by a substance that makes pigs vomit.

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Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo’s "The Tiny Things Are Heavier" is a reflection on young adulthood, migration, cultural ...

Women and global diplomacy. Women, as we all know, are realists, but they are also realists who, while they keep their feet on the ground, also keep their eyes on far horizons.

PIPER: [Also], in cultures where children are very rare, the confidence and feeling that you can have children, that that is an available life path such that people go down, [it] becomes less viable ...

Whoever may have told you that nonfiction is boring was either A) reading the wrong books or B) just plain wrong. Autobiographies and memoirs, for instance, are some of the most captivating reads—and ...

Bay Area writer and physician Christine Henneberg wrapped up her memoir, published it and was ready to take on something new.