Read up and pack up. Take a Colorado literary trip this summer.

Read up and pack up. Take a Colorado literary trip this summer.

Great literature is deeply rooted in place, and Colorado towns have been inspiring authors for decades. Ready to try a fiction-fueled vacay? Here’s how it works: Pick a title from the list below, read it solo or with your book club, then follow our travel notes to immerse yourself in a real-life literary setting. Sink … Read more

Colorado guidebook for kids adds learning to the mix

Colorado guidebook for kids adds learning to the mix

“Exploring Colorado With Kids,” by Jamie Siebrase (a freelance writer for The Denver Post) and Debbie Mock (Falcon Guides) Letting a kid “wander the historical buildings at the Centennial Village Museum or touch a cloud inside the National Center for Atmospheric Research, that’s when a spark is ignited and the best kind of learning happens,” … Read more

“Martyr!” Plays Its Subject for Laughs but Is Also Deadly Serious

“Martyr!” Plays Its Subject for Laughs but Is Also Deadly Serious

A novel with the title “Martyr!” arrives on the scene preloaded and explosive. The word is fraught, even more so now than when the book’s author, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar, chose it. There’s humor in the exclamation mark, but there’s something else, too. It signals that Akbar is fascinated with words in action, … Read more

Review: Joanne McNeil’s “Wrong Way” Takes the Shine Off the Self-Driving Car

Review: Joanne McNeil’s “Wrong Way” Takes the Shine Off the Self-Driving Car

Car companies have been experimenting with driverless cars for decades, but their presence on roads has exploded in recent years. It became increasingly common, beginning in the twenty-tens, to see robo-taxi prototypes driving around on public streets, albeit with human “safety drivers” sitting inside, ready to take over and compensate for machine error. Then the … Read more