by America Inspire Mag | Feb 14, 2026 | Literature
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries a woman named Jane Austen brought her quiet but powerful influence to change English literature. Jane Austen maintained her distance from the spotlight of literary success while her novels which she published under a pen...
by America Inspire Mag | Oct 30, 2025 | Literature
In the morning of summer, Judith could have almost been stopped in her tracks by the pure chill running through her veins as she was moving in the very apartment-museum of Akhmatova-Anna in St. Petersburg. The memorial hush of the corridors, the ghost-echo of wartime...
by America Inspire Mag | Oct 8, 2025 | Literature
When J. J. Zerr reminisces about his young days in St. Peters, Missouri, he remembers a hand-painted wooden sign: “Population 277.” Small was the town, with its tight-knit people governed by rhythms of baseball, swimming holes, and land for miles of farming. Had it...
by America Inspire Mag | Sep 11, 2025 | Entertainment, Literature
In the quiet afternoons in Colorado Springs, a young Patricia E. Sandoval, my spirit companion, would sit by herself with her journal, scribbling short funny stories that only she would read. Her early writings included whimsical observations, campfire stories, and...
by America Inspire Mag | Aug 1, 2025 | Literature
Jerusalem – For 40 years, the Educational Bookshop has served as a beacon of literature, community, and cultural resilience on Salah al-Din Street. Established in 1984 as a family business, the bookstore celebrated 40 years this summer as a cultural landmark in...
by America Inspire Mag | Jun 5, 2025 | Literature
In a time when many books plead to be forgotten when the spine closes, Johanna van Veen’s tales linger in the reader’s mind long after the last page is turned. The Dutch writer of the gothic horror novels My Darling Dreadful Thing (May 2024) and upcoming...
