By Ruth Franklin In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan ...

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Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

The book highlights 10 outrageous wrongful convictions and issues within the American legal system. In the sixth book in the series, LAPD detective Renée Ballard reopens a 20-year-old cold case ...

Aerial view of several opened books on the table. What makes a book so great? It’s not necessarily only about the quality of the writing but also the ability to change discourse, start ...

In “Rumbles,” historian Elsa Richardson offers a cultural account of the workings and symbolism of the “body’s most fascinating organ.” ...

The book will keep “his legacy alive,” Navalnaya said. “Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world.

The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson were some of the most shocking deaths by brain injury in history, but this new book by brain surgeon Theodore H. Schwartz delves into ...

In a new memoir, Al Pacino promises to reveal the person behind the actor. But is he holding something back? In his new novel, the present isn’t much better than the past—and it’s a lot less ...

As the weather cools and the days get darker, new fall books arrive in libraries and bookstores. Look out for fiction both historical and magical, new adventures from best-selling thriller writers ...

Meanwhile, Charlie is beside him, engrossed in 10 Things I Hate About Plato, the fictional book by his crush and favourite author, classicist Jack Maddox (Jonathan Bailey). You cannot buy this ...

Starz’s period series starring Nicholas Galitzine, Julianne Moore and Tony Curran is based on the 2017 book The King’s Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by journalist ...