Critic and satirist Brown (150 Glimpses of the Beatles) depicts Queen Elizabeth (1926–2022) as “a human looking-glass” in this clever and stylish portrait. Conveying the queen’s impact as ...

Koe (Delayed Rays of a Star) draws on Chinese mythology for this brilliant story of two sisters who were born as snakes in 815 China and live as women in contemporary New York City and Singapore.

Authors Maiga Doocy, K.M. Enright, and Emery Robin discuss the recent rise of LGBTQ characters and themes in speculative fiction. Rachael Allen, V.P. Anderson, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Colleen AF ...

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Perfectly balancing sweetness and steam, the latest from Day (the Eddington Heirs series) finds Genesis Hunter at a crossroads. Her lease is up, her job has been eliminated, and her finances are ...

Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture “Science, rather than being a sideline, is the through line that integrates [Benjamin] Franklin’s diverse interests ...

This gentle meditation on change and memory by prior collaborators Maclear and Maurey (The Specific Ocean) opens with the title phrase, spoken by the work’s child narrator. A gouache painting ...

Federica Marzi, trans. from the Italian by Jim Hicks. Sandorf Passage, $21.95 (348p) ISBN 978-953-351-477-2 Italian writer Marzi’s beautiful if halting debut explores the intersecting lives of ...

An East Texas widow discovers her late husband was leading a double life in the appealing latest from Sandlin (Family Business). It’s 1964 and Eliza Kratke, 57, is doubly crushed, first by the ...

In honor of World Kid Lit Month in September, we spoke with publishers and translators about the landscape of children’s ...

Stewart, most recently manager of grassroots communications for the ALA's Public Policy and Advocacy Office, will join the ...