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Growing up, Amber Chen was an avid sci-fi/fantasy reader. Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series is still one of her all-time favorites, and she sees echoes of its heroine [...]

PADRAIG O TUAMA is a poet, theologian, and host of the podcast Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios. In 2022 he published both the chapbook Feed the Beast and the [...]

Justin Taylor Reboot Pantheon Books, 2024 I met Justin Taylor in the spring of 2017 at Butler University. His passionate, restrained teaching style had a tremendous effect on me, especially [...]

What books are on your night stand? Can I first say how much I like the term 'night stand'? In the U.K. we call them 'bedside tables,' which is so [...]

The arrival on Sept. 24 of Sally Rooney's new novel, 'Intermezzo,' is one of this fall's biggest publishing events -- not only for the legion of devoted readers hungry for [...]

What books are on your night stand? What tends to accumulate is a mix of active pleasure reading, books I hope to pleasure-read very soon and anything I might want [...]

DURING BEVERLEY McLACHLIN'S 28 history-making years on Canada's Supreme Court bench, she ruled on laws that created a quantum forward leap in the state of human rights in Canada--for Indigenous [...]

December brought the publication of The Return of Inflation: Money and Capital in the Twenty-First Century (London: Reaktion, 2023), by Paul Mattick, who is--full disclosure--the Field Notes editor. Members of [...]

Salman Rushdie's 22nd book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, is his account of the attack on 12 August 2022 that nearly took his life, but it is much more [...]

What books are on your night stand? Anne Frank's 'The Diary of a Young Girl' and Yasunari Kawabata's 'Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.' Have you ever gotten in trouble for reading a book? [...]

What books are on your night stand? Jan Morris's ''Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere.'' It's about the city she first visited as a soldier after World War II -- [...]

In Look What You Made Me Do: Confronting Heartbreak & Harassment in Big Law, lawyer-turned-author Erin Gordon recounts her alienation as a young associate in the early 1990s--almost 25 years [...]

What books are on your night stand? Grady Hendrix's ''Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,'' CJ Leede's ''American Rapture,'' Stephen King's ''You Like It Darker,'' Emil Ferris's ''My Favorite Thing Is Monsters [...]

What books are on your night stand? Walton Ford's ''Pancha Tantra.'' A stunning assemblage of the painter's vivid and tragic work. Also, a tattered ''Testament Newydd'' found years ago in [...]

What books are on your night stand? This is a terribly personal question! As an author, I've brazenly talked about books for years, but I still feel like reading should [...]

What books are on your night stand? If a big earthquake hits San Francisco, the pile on my night stand might be what takes me out. It won't be a [...]

AudioFile spoke with author Huda Fahmy and producer Iris McElroy about adapting the graphic novels Huda F Are You? and Huda F Cares? as audiobooks. AudioFile: What was your favorite [...]

Despite his success--bestselling books, awards, film adaptations, critical acclaim--Richard Price, who typically works seven days a week, admits he doesn't enjoy writing all that much. 'If someone could give me [...]

For the 1983 America's Cup, our plan was to do two new boats and to trial them against each other We already had two decent boats, Freedom and Enterprise, for [...]

After decades of acquiring novels as an editor, Edwin Frank has finally written a book about the novel: his nonfiction debut examines that most dominant of literary forms in its [...]

An interview with the judges of Briarpatch's 13th annual Writing in the Margins contest: Helen Knott Juliane Okot Bitek, and Kevin Settee. BRIARPATCH'S ANNUAL WRITING IN THE MARGINS CONTEST is [...]

Celebrated children's author and poet, Lisa Westberg Peters, combines poetry with a physics theme in her wonderfully unique new book, Push-Pull Morning: Dog Powered Poems About Matter and Energy. Exploring [...]

Cindy L. Rodriguez's recent picture book, Three Pockets Full: A Story of Love, Family, and Tradition, is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Prize in the 2022 Story [...]

T. I. Frazier describes himself as a storyteller at heart. 'Both culturally and in my nature, I have always loved to entertain, teach, and inspire through stories,' he says. Today, [...]

In the 1980s, two valuable innovations, laparoscopic gallbladder surgery and electronic health records (EHRs), came to market. The former became widely adopted in about three years. The latter took three [...]

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, found herself captivated by the misinformation--and disinformation--spewed across social media. People were falling prey to lies, conspiracy theories [...]

What books are on your night stand? On the literal night stand, the pile includes Alice McDermott's ''The Ninth Hour'' (I loved last fall's ''Absolution'' so much that I went [...]