The indie press that has drawn the most attention over the past three years is Authors Equity. The publisher was incorporated in 2023 by three well-known industry veterans, including former Penguin ...

Word of mouth has been fueling interest in My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney, now in its seventh week on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Japanese horror author-artist Uketsu returns with Strange ...

The copublisher of Canada’s Annick Press reflects on half a century of children’s publishing and evolving to meet new generations ...

The mood at this year’s fair felt energetic,” he noted. “The market feels generally healthy, but people are excited about new books, new ideas.” Unsurprisingly, one of the hot topics at the fair was ...

Among the books hitting shelves next week are a picture book from a beloved queer performer, a middle grade novel highlighting Indigenous history, a YA trilogy closer following a teen’s final battle ...

In the author’s third novel, The Fervent Whites, a wrongly convicted white couple’s return from prison to their predominantly Black hamlet stirs up old resentments. The idea to write about a small, ...

In ‘Inspiration Porn’ (St. Martin’s, May), the star and writer of the Netflix series ‘Special’ reflects on navigating Hollywood as a gay man with cerebral palsy.

Red flags for generic writing include overwriting, repetitive sentence structures, tired metaphors, clichés (both linguistic and stylistic), and dialogue in which every character sounds the same. Make ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Anna Dewdney Read-Together Award, which was established in 2016 by Penguin Young Readers, the Children’s Book Council, and Every Child a Reader in honor of ...

Adib Khorram and Nathanael Lessore address the complexities of masculinity and growing up in their new YA novels 'One Word, Six Letters' and 'King of Nothing,' respectively.

In J.R. Thornton’s sophomore novel, Lucien, a scholarship student falls under the sway of his charming, dangerous roommate and becomes a reluctant accomplice in a scheme to sell fake art. The ...

Our reviews of the books that inspired this year's Academy Award–nominated films, from 'Hamnet' and 'Train Dreams' to 'One Battle After Another' and beyond.