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Evangelical Christianity as Fantasy (?) in Emily Carpenter’s Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters The not-quite sequel to Emily Carpenter’s...

Following Emmy award-winning journalist and long-time anchor or NPR’s Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa from her childhood to present day

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

As we come to the close of Latinx Heritage Month (Sep 15 - Oct 15), I’m reflecting on what books I’ve read so far this year that are...

How to Be Alone is one of those books that was so nice I read it twice. I’m not prone to rereads and have only picked up the same book...

“What is a good family? Is it money? Because we had a lot of that for a little while, but my home life was anything but good. Is it...

This is one of the most important young adult books I have read in my short, but well-read life. As a huge admirer of When They See Us...

This week; Stephen King, Jean Kwok, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lisa Jewell, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Ernesto Sabato, Paulina Flores & more.

Everyone loves the chase, that’s what they say right? In his brilliant new novel The Hunted, Gabriel Bergmoser explores this in the most...

“I was ashamed of the idea that I could escape her, even of wanting to.” I watched White Oleander almost religiously in high school so I...

Bianca Marais is the author of two historical fiction novels both set in South Africa during periods of upheaval. I have been a fan since...

As a writer, I am more often reading to encounter wonderful prose than I am to be transported and/or entertained. My criteria is simple:...

Hilary Mantel, Anne Patchett, Georgina Lawton, Juli Delgado Lopera, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Emily M Danforth, Sara Shepard & more.

Madeleine Ryan is a writer and actor who has written movingly about her experiences as an autistic woman for Vice and Lenny, among other...

A Room Called Earth felt like a perfect summer’s evening. You’ve spent the day at the beach, it’s been sweaty and salty but you’ve soaked...

TW: sex, sexual assault “Woah, are you okay?” or a discombobulated rearranging of those words are what I remember most about the night I...

“But, goddamn, growing up sure can look like madness.”

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora is the first volume in a series which brings together...

“What is the legacy and the future of Africa and the African Diaspora?” Any long time reader of science fiction and fantasy in English...

I should’ve known Elena Ferrante would write the book that made me remember those searing, clawing, self-loathing inner thoughts...

I'm a not die-hard fan of Kid Cudi, but one song that I can listen to on repeat is "Pursuit of Happiness." Reading Writers & Lovers, I...

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

Fleishman Is In Trouble has been blurbed by many people as a book that accurately represents modern marriage;  described as an honest and...