Books, Arts, and Culture

There are so many children’s books about animals floating out in the world. Even just within this subset of fiction they fit into various categories: teaching...

A few months ago I saw something circulating online that made me feel seen—Bette Davis’s divorce announcement, published in 1938 by The New York Times. Why did the article speak to...

Twenty years after her debut award-decked and canonical YA novel Speak hit shelves, Laurie Halse Anderson is back again with a new book that takes on similar...

This Riot Recommendation listing your favorite stories about women in WW2 is sponsored by The Huntress by Kate Quinn. “If you loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz,...

This giveaway is sponsored by Wednesday Books. An all new paranormal fantasy series from #1 bestselling authors P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast ignites a world of...

Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. British fans of sadness, tragedy, and sobbing fits have...

What’s Up in YA is our biweekly newsletter about all things young adult literature, and we’re giving away a $100 gift card to Amazon to support...

We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance to note titles we...

Does Vladimir Putin not worry about the chilling effect that arrests like Michael Calvey’s will have on Western investment in Russia? Apparently not, say analysts, for...

The 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been announced! This year’s longlist is an interesting mix of genres and both new authors—with seven debut novels...