In a future dystopia, Zia Alexander lives in crumbling ruins playing the world’s most illegal and addictive virtual reality game. After the loss of her mother, she plays the game for her shot at freedom. Zia discovers a map that leads to Lemuria—a real fantasy world full of dragons, wicked faeries a…
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Books: They can be short.
From painstakingly researched biographies and histories charting the rise and fall of modern business empires to deep dives into the birth of influential gadgets, these are some of the best tech books to gift.
On Wednesday, during what the American Library Association has deemed Banned Books Week, more than a dozen best-selling authors, including Michael Connelly, Judy Blume and Nikki Grimes, said they are uniting to take a stand against censorship in the state's schools and libraries.
It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblin…
Sexy white men will always be forgiven. They don’t even have to apologize.
To Paradise plays on themes Yanagihara has touched on in her previous work—trauma; wealth and squalor; race; nationhood; and the righteousness of the powerful.
I actually love events, and I love speaking to people and especially love having the chance to hear from young readers—but a single event can take me days to recover from, even virtually and from the comfort of my home.
Remind yourself that you deserve to feel like someone is excited to be with you, that someone is excited to commit to you, and dive into something concrete and foundational with you.
It seems that people don’t realize how much the stuff we read and watch shapes the way we see the world and the people in it, ourselves included.
One could go so far as to say that 2020 was a terrible, horrible, very bad, no good year.
Wyatt Cenac hosts a night of readings about New York.
Intuition can't be found in books.
There are plenty of books that run the gambit of the Latinx experience, whether by featuring gay and trans Latinx characters to those of different class statuses.
People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.
Once the pride of my childhood, my rainbow-organized bookshelves shelves have now become the perfect ice-breaker—and, inevitably, argument-starter.
I’ll never be able to get back the years I’ve now spent responding to an ex-boyfriend’s baseless legal assaults … instead of writing another book. That’s a loss I don’t know how to fully comprehend.
It's Earth Day, but many of us are staying inside—it's good for all of us (and possibly for nature too), yet it means we can't freely enjoy the environment with our family and friends.
It was more important to her to be seen as an author than it was to be an author. She didn’t know how to be an author.
The novel is set 64 years before the first Hunger Games novel, so way before Katniss Everdeen was born.