Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To an outsider, these so-called “bonnet-rippers” look placid and innocuous. Notably, no bonnets are actually torn within the pages ...

Lifelong community member Linda Byler, 65, penned "Tapestry of Love" (literally -- in a notebook) after beginning her writing career at an Amish newspaper. Linda Byler/Amazon A new Amish romance novel ...

About the time my first novel was published — less than a decade ago — a fiction phenomenon was beginning. Amish fiction, it was called. The trend was so powerful my literary agent asked if I had any ...

Amid climate change, terrorism, a global refugee crisis, nuclear standoff, and democracies traveling vectors unknown, the appeal of postapocalyptic fiction is not hard to understand. “The world feels ...

Alabama library directors will review 82 books flagged as potentially inappropriate for children. The Alabama Public Library Service received dozens of submissions since publicizing a complaint form ...

Calling someone nostalgic is an “affectionate insult at best,” Svetlana Boym has written, and few people appreciate the affection. Although the term has shed its medical connotations—it was first used ...

Emma Gingerich doesn’t have anything against the Amish romance novels that have become such a popular subset of Christian fiction. Gingerich just hopes readers realize those novels romanticize the ...

An Amish author hosts a book-signing event this Thursday at Silk and Spine, 137 N. Vermilion St. in Danville. The book signing will take place at 2 p.m. with Kevin Williams, who is also ...

Donald Kraybill was traveling south of Tokyo a few years ago when he encountered an Amish woman peddling pastries. She was a Japanese businesswoman, actually, sporting a bonnet and marketing foods ...

On a chilly morning this past January, the writer Lucinda J. Kinsinger strapped her baby daughter into her car seat and drove two-plus hours from her home in rural Oakland, Maryland, to Waynesboro, ...