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Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history. “B Is for Breadfruit,” from “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”Credit...Kara Walker Supported by By Celia McGee Celia ...

Had anything resembling “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children” actually existed in the days of antebellum plantation culture, it would have been forbidden fruit: Few enslaved people, ...

This illustrated collection features 750 varieties of hostas: those""exotic, luxuriant-leafed perennials,"" as HRH The Prince of Wales describes in his preface, that have spread their way into gardens ...

Entries in a dictionary are “dry, functional, almost bureaucratically sapped of color or pop, like high-modernist architecture. Which trains you to think of the dictionary as a utility, not a quarry ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Book, Inc., (www.worldbook.com) a leading publisher of nonfiction children's book series, core reference, and digital learning platforms, today announced the new ...

Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox, covering American identities. Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. One Good Thing is Vox’s recommendations ...

In “All the Knowledge in the World,” Simon Garfield recounts the history of the encyclopedia — a tale of ambitious effort, numerous errors and lots of paper. By Jing Tsu When you purchase an ...