Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year.
You would hope it’s impossible to forget about one of your favorite books, but it happened to me, and I’m now determined to make sure I don’t forget this book again, or its author.
The actor from Highland Park spoke to an audience that included folks who attended his bar mitzvah. His book of semi-autobiographical essays wasn’t the main topic of the night.
“Great Expectations” is a combination coming-of-age novel and roman à clef about 23-year-old David.
In his sixth book, author and poet Hanif Abdurraqib explores the romance of basketball and what it means to leave a legacy.
With “The Searcher” and now “The Hunter,” Tana French is taking the elements of crime novels and showing us how the stories unfurl from the perspectives not of the investigators, but those affected.
“The Great Divide” is set a century ago during the digging of the Panama Canal, and not on the fringes, but among men constructing it.
Dennis Yi Tenen reminds us that technology cannot exist independently of its creators and users, and ultimately humans hold the final responsibility for technology’s impact.
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter and banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”
I was on a plane recently when I saw what I believed to be a great crime being committed.