Teens love an excellent mystery—the fun of fixing a puzzle, the suspense of surprising twists, and the satisfaction of the truth. Whether your youngster is an avid reader or simply…
Introduction Who Was The Author Who Won The Children's Book Award? Kids' writing has a mystical approach to significantly shaping youthful personalities. These books show examples, flash creative mind, and make…
Animals Playing Instruments Children Books can be introduced to music through animal-themed songs, as parents and music educators are well aware. For children who enjoy music, songs are an excellent…
1 From an early age, Nancy D’Alesandro realized her mother never had much chance to be a person. Annunciata Lombardi had always wanted more out of life. After high school, she found…
Fans of Edward Cullen, the brooding vampire hero from Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling “Twilight” series, will have something fresh to bite into this summer. Ms. Meyer announced on Monday that “Midnight Sun,”…
Once you’ve finished “Telephone,” the latest book by Percival Everett, you may be talking about it with another reader and finding that you disagree on what happened. That is intentional. “There are…
Image Credit...Nadia Hafid Play This: The Paperback Game All you need is some pulp fiction and a good imagination. By May 2, 2020 My family didn’t invent the paperback game (I don’t know who did),…
This article is part of The New York Times True Crime storytelling project. “Is this based on the Oakland County Child Killer case?” a man asked me, holding up a copy…
Samanta Schweblin’s writing straddles the unsettling border between the real and the surreal. Her novel “Fever Dream” takes place in a hospital where a dying woman narrates episodes from her…
Eavan Boland, who began publishing poetry in the mid-1960s in Ireland and soon became one of the most prominent women in the male-dominated literary landscape of that country, died on…
Recently, The Times’s co-chief theater critics put together a musical cast recording starter kit for those of us stuck at home — 10 cast albums they’d take with them to…
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AIDA HERNANDEZ: A Border Story, by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. (Picador, 432 pp., $20.) Our reviewer, Michelle Goldberg, called this “novelistic” real-life tale of a dreamer/deportee who…
