Katie Kitamura's fourth novel, Intimacies, is told from the astute and digressive perspective of a court interpreter. The woman in question confronts major changes in her life; her father has died...
In Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano writes the beautiful recovery story of Edward Adler, “the miracle boy” who works hard to overcome the unimaginable. Edward “Eddie” Adler is a twelve-year-old...
Some people never seem to rest in their attempts to stop young people from knowing that queer people exist. And contrary to popular belief, this is not just a US-based problem in the West - and even...
Web-reading platforms have become so popular in the last several years that many companies have started to follow the trend. From California to Singapore, these start-ups are competing to attract the...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to The Book of Life: A Podcast About Jewish Kidlit...
Since the publication of her 2017 debut, Conversations with Friends and her work Normal People, Irish writer Sally Rooney has become an inescapable benchmark of “millennial literature”. Her...
When I was 18 years old, the fear of losing my parents overcame me. The terror faded when I realized that it would be much harder for them to lose a child. Eighteen years later, I faced the harsh...
In her first book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, teaches us how to open our minds and hearts to...
Kate Elizabeth Russell’s spirited and uncomfortable literary debut, My Dark Vanessa tells the story of a vulnerable teenage girl and an older man who takes advantage of her. The novel essentially...
Three mysterious women and a heinous murder form the narrative framework of Paula Hawkins' new thriller. A Slow Fire Burning is an agile and harrowing story that is sustained with quality until the...
