Genre Explorations

Have you been considering blasting through Bleak House this Christmas? Or fighting through The Complete Works of Shakespeare? Why not step back and read one of these books about books...

Every year, we share a list of books from around the world that our team has read and enjoyed. For 2024, we decided to do something different: We asked influential...

Bewdley will play host to Step Into Stories, a one-day festival on Saturday, April 13 which will feature an array of children’s authors, poets and storytellers at a series of...

A newly published book of lyrical poems ‘The Tribe of Earth’ by Newry man Peter Makem has been described as one of the greatest of all Irish collections of poetry,...

The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize is a biennial international prize that recognizes artful, innovative, and intellectually probing book-length works of nonfiction. Sponsored jointly by The Yale Review and Yale University...

An expansive new show devoted to children’s literature, Building Stories, is the most ambitious exhibition ever mounted by the National Building Museum, said Aileen Fuchs, the museum's president and executive...

Megan Fox‘s poetry collection Pretty Boys Are Poisonous isn’t a simple recounting of relationships that went wrong. When announcing the 176-page book out today, the actress explained: “These poems were...

The best nonfiction books of the year dug deep, mining both personal and global history to uncover essential truths. John Vaillant captured the horrors of a wildfire to study the...

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work Click here to read a poem from Fady Joudah’s . We are entering the sixth month of the most...

Jamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had polio as a child. Born in 1976 with a crooked leg that her family blamed on...