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Book Review: Elliot Page's timely debut memoir 'Pageboy' is powerful, humanizing

Book Review: Elliot Page's timely debut memoir 'Pageboy' is powerful, humanizing

"Pageboy" by Elliot Page (Flatiron Books) Look, I admire Elliot Page as much as the next LGBTQ+ person and was swooning just as hard over this incredible cover and the mystery around the hush-hush book with the super-private advanced copies.
Book Review: Isabel Allende's 'The Wind Knows My Name' explores lives of 2 children adrift alone

Book Review: Isabel Allende's 'The Wind Knows My Name' explores lives of 2 children adrift alone

PHOENIX (AP) 鈥 "The Wind Knows My Name" by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books) Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each other by decades and thousands of miles
Book Review: Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell pens powerful graphic memoir 'The Talk'

Book Review: Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell pens powerful graphic memoir 'The Talk'

鈥淭he Talk鈥 by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt & Company) Seeing the other children at the park playing with water guns, Darrin asks his mom for one. Her immediate response: No.
Book Review: 'George,' a memoir by Frieda Hughes, is about saving and being saved by a wild bird

Book Review: 'George,' a memoir by Frieda Hughes, is about saving and being saved by a wild bird

鈥淕eorge: A Magpie Memoir,鈥 by Frieda Hughes (Avid Reader Press) Frieda Hughes in an English poet and painter who has built a following on birding Instagram (@friedahughes) with her beguiling videos of owls.
Book Review: 鈥楳ozart in Motion鈥 by Patrick Mackie seeks to bring composer to life in new ways

Book Review: 鈥楳ozart in Motion鈥 by Patrick Mackie seeks to bring composer to life in new ways

鈥淢ozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces鈥 by Patrick Mackie (Macmillan Publishers). Writing a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nowadays is no easy task.
How much of yourself do you reveal in a poem? Griffin Poetry Prize nominees weigh in

How much of yourself do you reveal in a poem? Griffin Poetry Prize nominees weigh in

TORONTO 鈥 All five poets shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize this year write in the first person, oftentimes about their lives. But they say it would be a mistake to take their work as non-fiction.
Suit challenges Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over 'harmful' materials

Suit challenges Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over 'harmful' materials

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) 鈥 A federal lawsuit filed Friday challenges an Arkansas law that would subject librarians and booksellers to criminal charges if they provide 鈥渉armful鈥 materials to minors.

小蓝视频icut board votes against banning books after acrimonious debate over sexual content

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) 鈥 A 小蓝视频icut board of education has voted two keep two books on its town's high school shelves after weeks of acrimonious debate over book-banning that culminated in the resignation of two Republican board members.
Book Review: 'The Celebrants' by Steven Rowley will make you want to call an old friend

Book Review: 'The Celebrants' by Steven Rowley will make you want to call an old friend

鈥淭he Celebrants鈥 by Steven Rowley (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Steven Rowley is one of those authors where if you read one of his novels, his name gets added to a mental 鈥淭BR鈥 (to-be read) list.
Jasmine Sealy's 'The Island of Forgetting' wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Jasmine Sealy's 'The Island of Forgetting' wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award

TORONTO 鈥 An intergenerational saga about a family that runs a beachfront hotel has won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Jasmine Sealy took home the $60,000 prize for "The Island of Forgetting.
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