Kat Chow

Yu & Me Books was a fairly new business when a fire caused substantial damage to the shop. Now, owner Lucy Yu is working to repair not just the physical bookstore but the community around it as well.

We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.

With the spate of racist mass violence in recent years, it's helpful to consider past waves of white supremacist activity in the United States and what, exactly, caused those ebbs and flows.

For more than a century, it has been a racial slur. But there's also a movement to reclaim the term. So, what about Yellow?