Sketching is a form of visual thinking that exercises the mind and body, and it’s easy to turn your tablet into a portable art studio. By J. D. Biersdorfer “Any one who can learn to write, can learn ...

Ed Emberley has mastered the art of instructing young people how to draw it. Emberley, the 83-year-old Caldecott Medal-winning writer and illustrator, has authored over 80 playfully illustrated ...

One of the most moving scenes in any novel of war occurs on the first page of Nadeem Aslam’s “The Wasted Vigil” (2008), set in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Toward dawn, in a cavernous old house, a woman ...