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After his upbringing in Tenafly in the 1950s and 1960s, Peter Balakian came to build his writing craft around a growing awareness of his Armenian origins and the tragedy of the 1915 Armenian genocide. What resulted were multiple poetry collections, including Ozone Journal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for...

For years, the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts—and their respective participants—have been completely different. And why shouldn’t they be? They’re two completely different organizations with two completely different sets of objectives for their participants. One roasts canned food over an open fire in...

If there’s one thing students dislike more than tedious calculations, it’s endless grammar exercises that don’t seem to result in much besides a cramping hand and a dull pencil. Learning grammar rules, however, is critical for anyone seeking to improve his or her writing style or just score hig...

In 1985, Canadian author Margaret Atwood published a 311-page dystopian novel that has forever changed the essence of feminism. The totalitarian rule of Gilead and the proximity of this dystopian society to ours today has certainly disconcerted more than a few reader’s minds. Last year, an award-winning...