Genre Explorations

Dive into the world of environmental non-fiction with books that cater to all ages. From Joanna Cole's engaging exploration of water's role in our ecosystem in 'The Magic School Bus...

Published • 11:59 • Monday, 4 Dec 2023 Rick O'Shea’s picks: A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder by Mark O’Connell Rental Person Who Does Nothing...

Award-winning author Kyle Lukoff will deliver the 2025 Children's Literature Lecture. His middle-grade novel, Too Bright to See, was a 2022 Newbery Honor Book, a Stonewall Award Winner and a...

Journalist and novelist Nicolás Medina Mora joins co-host V.V. Ganeshananthan and guest co-host Matt Gallagher to talk about Mexico’s president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, who will be the first woman and first...

The stories our parents tell form and shape us — and they can warp us in turn. “They may not mean to,” Philip Larkin famously wrote, “but they do.” This...

1. The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry Kevin Barry’s latest novel is a masterpiece – a western about two lovers on the run from bounty hunters across the badlands of...

Dawn Tripp opens “Jackie” — her new novel about Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis — in a hallway of Dallas’s Parkland Memorial Hospital on Nov. 22, 1963. Using poetic, vivid and...

First presented in 1967, the annual Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards celebrate the very best in literature for children and young people. This year’s awards are particularly notable, said Elissa Gershowitz,...