June 13, 2024 • Research Highlight A tablet-based screening tool that analyzes children’s behavior in response to specific video clips shows promise for enhancing early autism screening, according to a study supported... Read more »
“Chameleon-skinned, I discover my material over and across the country, and up and down the social ladder,” wrote Bharati Mukherjee in her 1988 essay “Immigrant Writing: Give Us Your Maximalists!” Mukherjee had... Read more »
What author owns a bookstore near you? We may think of writers as people who live behind their words, out of reach of society, but many are deeply involved in their local... Read more »
Say what you like about the biographer Tom Bower, he hits the ground running: from the opening bars of House of Beckham, an epic symphony of snide, you know exactly where youâre... Read more »
After a case spurred by complaints on books containing the words “butt” and “fart” as well as touching on the topics of racism and LGBTQ+ identity, an appellate court has ruled that... Read more »
June 14, 2024 • Institute Update • 75th Anniversary It is estimated that one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness. These conditions can range in severity and lead to... Read more »
How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from... Read more »
In 1986, two catastrophic events occurred on either side of the cold war divide that shocked the world. On 28 January, 73 seconds after takeoff, the US space shuttle Challenger broke apart... Read more »