in a children’s book, titled “If You Don’t Vote, You Don’t Count.” The book had been on her mind for years, after working as a librarian and noticing how much children enjoyed reading ...

Across the country and in Connecticut, protesters took to the street Monday to voice their objections to the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball.

Laurence Rees asks: Are we in danger of history repeating itself? The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan ...

In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

Every once in a while, an unfamiliar work from the museum’s holdings will emerge from storage, and it feels like a new ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

Word guessing games have become a fun daily activity that has become the modern-day equivalent of crosswords. If you’ve got a lineup of daily word guessers you play, Contexto should definitely ...

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...