These books don’t merely entertain; they resonate, making us pause, reflect, and sometimes, change. A beautifully written book is more than just good storytelling. It’s an experience.

Many of John Green’s novels offer a snapshot of young adult reading culture in the 2010s – star-crossed teenage lovers and “manic pixie dream girl” characters, Tumblr quotes and metaphors ...

The first three books, written for HarperCollins, were published in 1991, and a fourth was released in 1992. But Ms. Smith — whose first agent was her typist, who had never represented a client ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

Washington DC in the United States of America has received a book titled “The History of an African Community;Ikhonmioto:The History of Onicha-Olona Kingdom” written by a Nigerian-American ...

Four historical books about the Tudor court offer insight into what really happened. In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of ...

Correction, March 26, 2025: This article originally misstated that Kidd recommended Amusing Ourselves to Death in an article written by journalist Tim Cato. Cato recommended the book.

Revelation 22:19 All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired, written Word of God but disagree on which Books belong in the Bible.

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