Michael Craig-Martin RA talks about his series of wall drawings featuring instantly recognisable objects. To create these ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

By Sara Novic In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan How ...

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In “Rumbles,” historian Elsa Richardson offers a cultural account of the workings and symbolism of the “body’s most fascinating organ.” ...

The mystifying, genre-twisting Aurora has a loaded discography of heavily conceptual tracks; her latest record, What Happened ...

Welcome in the new month with our picks for the best fiction, nonfiction and celebrity memoirs Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and ...

In a new memoir, Al Pacino promises to reveal the person behind the actor. But is he holding something back? In his new novel, the present isn’t much better than the past—and it’s a lot less ...

As the weather cools and the days get darker, new fall books arrive in libraries and bookstores. Look out for fiction both historical and magical, new adventures from best-selling thriller writers ...

Create a thriving community of readers—and keep meeting attendance high—with these fun and easy tips for starting a book club You’ve just turned the final page of your book. You’ve got all ...

With so many books in the world, reading can be an endlessly expensive hobby. But thanks to the internet and the magic of libraries, there are a ton of ways to read your favorite books for free ...