As a long-time emergency physician, I must and happily subscribe to Henry James’ edict, “Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.” That is the nature of medicine, particularly in the frenzy of the ER. Also, I try to keep in mind what one of my colleagues so astutely said years ago…

Acclaimed authors Angeline Boulley and Cynthia Leitich Smith discuss Indigenous representation, craft, and the future of Indigenous kid lit in a webcast conversation moderated by Dr. Debbie Reese. Join the live program Nov. 1. We’ve come a long way from Peter Pan’s Tiger Lily and Pocohontas, but how far? Acclaimed authors Angeline Boulley and Cynthia Leitich Smith…

Weird Rules to Follow is Kim Spencer’s debut novel. (Orca Book Publishers, Belle Ancell) Kim Spencer took home three prizes at the 2023 Canadian Children’s Book Awards for her debut novel, Weird Rules to Follow.  The seven awards, which include prizes for picture books, nonfiction and YA, annually celebrate the best in Canadian children’s literature.  Weird Rules…

How a loose cohort of international writers opposed the status quo, pulling from the endless subjectivity of culture to produce some of the century’s best literature Today, there seems to be a trend in literature that decries its exhaustion—no one reads anymore, they say, the literary golden age has passed—while at the same time, novels…

Jackson Howard and Jonathan Escoffery are part of Harper’s Bazaar’s 2023 Voices of Now, highlighting 36 forces shaping the cultural conversation. Literature is having a moment. Despite the novel being declared dead every few years, books—fiction in particular—are at the forefront of our political and cultural zeitgeist. BookTok—the community of readers who passionately dissect both…

In the last few years, the traditional literary world has gotten a lot more fun. Parties aren’t just thrown at bookstores that close at 9 pm but at punk bars and hotel ballrooms. They have custom merchandise, relevant DJs, and Botox. They’re photographed like celebrity parties. Publications like Forever Magazine, The Drift, and Copy are…

The wait is over; today on CBS Mornings, Oprah announced that her 103rd Book Club pick is Jesmyn Ward’s newest novel, Let Us Descend. The noveltells the story of Annis, a young, enslaved woman who is separated from her mother and sold South. Traveling from the Carolina rice fields to the New Orleans slave markets…

Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward ByHILLEL ITALIE AP national writer October 24, 2023, 8:21 AM This cover image released by Scribner shows “Let Us Descend” by Jesmyn Ward. (Scribner via AP) The Associated Press NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book…

Justin Torres’ much-awaited follow-up to We The Animals, Blackouts is a meandering conversation between an unnamed young queer narrator and Juan, an older man on the verge of death in a decrepit palace in the desert. At its center lies a book of sexology from the 1930s, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns. The…

Design student Willem Zwiers has salvaged second-hand books and used them to form a small furniture collection, currently on show at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week. Under the title Transformed Remnants, the range encompasses a side table and desk lamp as well as a bookshelf, which was itself made from…