The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

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Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move west, ...

Researchers have seen changes in the Amish community, particularly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They said the Amish are ...

Tremane Wood is set to be executed on Nov. 13 for the 2002 killing of 19-year-old Ronnie Wipf, who was stabbed in the heart ...

The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart ...

The Americas region, which comprises 35 countries, has officially lost its measles-free status.1 It comes after a year that has seen 12 593 cases and 28 deaths from measles in the region. When Canada ...

An often-cited modern example of forgiveness is the response of the Amish community around Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, after ...

According to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), part of the wider World Health Organization, Canada’s loss of its ...

This year, the number of Amish people in the United States passed the 400,000 mark, according to the Amish Studies Center at Elizabethtown College. The U.S. Amish population now totals 404,575, with ...