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Our recommendations for summer reading in 2025, featuring many books from Wisconsin writers, and including selections for children and teens.
Chang’s 2016 comic debut novel follows Charles, a cosmetics entrepreneur who lost pretty much everything in the 2008 ...
In the novel “Speak to Me of Home,” three generations of women in one family grapple with their identities.
Tabitha Brown shed light on how the Target boycott, nearly five months in, has been impacting her peers at the retailer.
We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and ...
Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart ...
Sterling K. Brown and producers Selwyn Hinds and Kimberly Harrison tease 'Washington Black,' a coming-of-age story about a ...
From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker prize. Our academics review the ...
Bechdel keeps the jokes coming at the pace of a good “Simpsons” episode, and with the same self-referential reflexes, ...
An exhibition in Cambridge, England uses contemporary portraits to give a face to prominent Black rebels and abolitionists of ...
With TV hits like Girlfriends, The Game, and Being Mary Jane under her belt, Mara Brock Akil is a bona fide legend—and her latest project, Netflix’s swoon-worthy Forever, is the newest TV show I can’t ...
Blume’s willingness to treat teen fiction with the utmost candour has always ruffled feathers, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll.