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SF/FANTASY/HORROR The Others: The Council Trilogy, Book 1 Evette Davis | SparkPress 352p, trade paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-684-63270-1 Davis's contemporary urban fantasy focuses on Olivia Shepherd, a political consultant whose [...]

Dwight Garner writes that voters, who ''seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage,'' looked for immersive reads. A long friendship between two girls in a poor neighborhood in [...]

This month, The New York Times Book Review published its list of the best 100 books of the 21st century so far, which included dystopian fiction, end-time novels, masterly reporting [...]

WHAT MAKES A BOOK A "STAR"? If you ask the SLJ reviews editors, they'll tell you, it's more feeling than formula. A star "stays with you," says Florence Simmons. "You're […]

FOR MOSTOF PUBLISHING history, there was one dominant mode of literary publicity: the book review. The major--and most prestigious--consumer book review outlets have changed little over the past hundred or [...]

MIDDLE GRADE * A Girl's Guide to Puberty and Periods Marni Sommer, Margaret Schmitt, Christine Hagstrom, Caitlin Gruer | IngramSpark 108p, e-book, $1.99, ISBN 978-1-737- 64251-0 The authors break down [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt (*) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

It's easier than ever to find someone to comment on your work. But whether you participate in an online critique group, meet up in person, post excerpts on Wattpad, or [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt(*) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

If you already like working on bikes, you will probably enjoy this book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sara Wheeler finds Sybille Bedford a snobbish, manipulative monster Emily Bearn is fascinated by R.L. Stevenson and J.M. Barrie's strange bromance Olivia Potts welcomes Nigella's recipes for dining alone Alexandra [...]

When Pamela Paul stepped down as editor of the New York Times Book Review in April 2022, the news came as a shock to many of her colleagues. Paul had [...]

A reminder that a seriously great life isn't free of lots of errors and sadness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition to their Mock Newbery duties, 'Heavy Medal' bloggers Steven Engelfried and Emily Mroczek-Bayci will offer insight from their time as members of the Newbery Committee. For more inside [...]

PAST PRESIDENTS AND SOON-TO-BE PRESIDENTS have long written for the Book Review -- Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy. The very first one to do so, though, was Theodore [...]

In 2012, I began a series on my blog, '100 Scope Notes,' called One Star Review, Guess Who? I kept coming across negative (and sometimes very funny) reviews for books [...]

With 2017 looking back at us from the rear-view mirror, we decided to offer our first-ever year-end review from the perspective of starred reviews. Over the following 76 pages, we've [...]

SEP. 9/5 Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History By Kurt Andersen Random House From the counterculture to fake news: how the hell we got here. A Legacy of [...]

--I remember very well the first Sunday New York Times review of a book I'd written. 1976.1 was thirty-two. The review was buried someplace toward the back of the magazine. [...]

When I reviewed disabled Guardian columnist Dr Frances Ryan's vital book Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People, I was conscious I was one of very few disabled critics [...]

AN INCREASINGLY POPULAR trend in crime fiction is the insertion of historical figures into the story, often as the detective or a significant bystander. Well-known writers Edna Ferber, Josephine Tey, [...]

WHEN does buzz solidify into a sound? I first heard it from my graduate students. They keep me current, and it seemed that every other day they'd forward me a [...]

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Azad Essa's new book, *Hostile Homelands*, examines why the Indian government shifted its views on Palestine in favor of an alliance with Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Last month I promised that September would be a 'frankly epic month for children's books' and here it is. In all my years of bookselling and previewing I can't recall [...]

Finding out which books my colleagues are excited about is always an epiphany; each editor is an expert on the areas she covers for LJ but also reads widely in [...]

Hello again. It's exactly a year since I wrote my last new fiction preview and rather regretfully handed back over to Alice O'Keeffe. Now Alice has gone on maternity leave [...]

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, The Atlantic published a history of authors', readers', and reviewers' gripes about book reviews. Reviews, the genre's critics have charged over the centuries, are unsatisfying --too nice, [...]

School Library Journal (SLJ) reviews thousands of books and other materials for children and teens each year. The concise 250-word evaluations, written by a volunteer corps of professional librarians and [...]

* 1414[degrees] PAUL BRADLEY CARR Synopsis: Bay Area Herald reporter Lou McCarthy, the protagonist of Carr's impressive debut, has gotten a tip that she believes might finally, after previous efforts, [...]

The fourth floor of the New York Times Building, where the eponymous paper's newly-formed Books Desk keeps its nest, is, somewhat appropriately, under construction. One side of the floor is [...]

The old booklover's aphorism, 'too many books, too little time,' is all too true and all too sad. Even if you narrow your wish list to the absolute must-reads, there [...]

Forest Avenue Press and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) have joined forces to gather early book reviews for Ramiza Shamoun Koya, the debut author of The Royal Abduls, due [...]

Mark Amory Being a slow reader, I first try the shortest, or anyway shorter, works of famous novelists unknown to me. This year, with many misgivings, I read The Confusions [...]

When I was a bewildered teenager with could-do-better grades, unnerved by the unfathomable enormity of life, I can remember the first time I stumbled into the Compendium bookshop in Camden. [...]

I was once advised not to make my hobby into my career, because that would be the end of the fun. That's not our experience as reviews editors at LJ. [...]

Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. It took just 30 seconds for Stephen King to respond to an [...]