Genre Explorations

Here are six powerful fiction books by Palestinian authors.   ‘My First and Only Love’  Sahar Khalifeh’s book is a deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young...

Over a year after first teasing it on his radio show, Drake has released his debut book of poetry. Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness is out now via...

A core remit for us here at the Women’s Prize Trust, is to champion brilliant books by women and to address gender bias in the world of books. New research...

“Legend” stood as the undisputed greatest Drake album intro (all respect to “Free Smoke”) until 2021’s Certified Lover Boy and its opener: “Champagne Poetry.” Now, “Legend” is still the greatest...

The world feels like an increasingly uncertain place but the one thing we can be utterly certain of is just how exciting and diverse the year ahead looks for books....

January 25, 2024, 10:11am There are hundreds of thousands of kids’ books out there. Some are classics that wind up in everyone’s homes, no matter what. Others are random—given as...

Harold Blackham, the first Executive Director of Humanists UK in the 1960s, famously said: ‘Humanism is about the world, not about humanism’. In this list of humanist non-fiction classics to...

Summary June 2024 brings exciting romance book releases, from sequels to debuts, offering something for every reader looking for love stories. Brynne Weaver's Leather & Lark promises a dark romance...

When the writer Xue Xinran returns to her native Beijing from London, she heads straight to the Xidan bookstore and navigates her way to the children’s section. She is never...

The founder of New Delhi’s Yoda Press, Arpita Das, looks at translation trends in India, a focus on fiction, and on English. Students shop for books in Kolkata. Image –...