Ann-Marie Cahill will read anything and everything. From novels to trading cards to the inside of CD covers (they’re still a thing, right?). A good day is when her kids bring notes home from school. A bad day is when she has to pry a book from her kids’ hands. And then realizes where they…

If you are ever in Steubenville, Ohio, that plucky burg of seedy steel mills and fresh-faced Catholic youth, it is to be hoped that you may chance upon the old main street, where there is a very remarkable bookshop. It is the only bookshop in town, and you can tell it is a real bookshop…

While mysteries can usually be trusted to compel the reader within the first chapter or even the first few pages, it’s rare for them to hook us from the first paragraph. But West Heart Kill, Dann McDorman’s clever debut, achieves this with intriguing tongue-in-cheek confidence. The book opens with the protagonist, detective Adam McAnnis, sitting…

S. Isabelle, the author of “The Witchery” and its sequel, “Shadow Coven,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. novels about witches. My fascination with witchy characters began in childhood, when I often imagined myself with the powers I read about in fantasy novels. I’ll never tire of meeting characters who manipulate magic, whether they’re inspired…

It was citizen assembly morning, and important matters of state were up for discussion. Therefore, one citizen dutifully made the early morning trek to the assembly. On arriving at the designated meeting space he saw… no one else. Annoyed with his fellow citizens’ disdain for the democratic process, he caustically remarked that if this were…

People select books at the 26th Algiers International Book Fair in Algiers, Algeria, on Oct. 26, 2023. The 26th Algiers International Book Fair kicked off Wednesday evening at the Exhibitions Center in Algiers, drawing attention to the richness of the African continent’s literature. (Xinhua) ALGIERS, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) — The 26th Algiers International Book Fair…

Saying that there is an invisibility issue that comes with being a colony is not a new, hot take. The model requires what Boaventura de Sousa Santos calls the “abyssal exclusion,” a social boundary between the colonizer and the colonized. That boundary keeps the latter silenced and hidden. In the case of Puerto Rico, where…

The book publisher Bloomsbury has hit record profits in the first half of the year thanks in part to a boom in fantasy fiction driven by the American author Sarah J Maas, the British novelist Samantha Shannon and the continuing popularity of Harry Potter. The London-based publishing house said profits rose 11% to £17.7m in…

I write children’s books because I believe they’re the most important books of all. They’re the books that make us readers in the first place. And as books written for an audience that includes children but excludes no one, I think children’s books are really books for everyone; books that can repay a lifetime’s reading.…

Launched by a group of like-minded book lovers wanting to spread the joy of books among their community, the BVI Book Tree is on a mission to get the youth of the BVI reading. Supported by Unite BVI, Nook and the Lions Club of Tortola, BVI Book Tree aims to change the lives of young…