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To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Ocean Vuong is one of the leading literary voices of the 21st century. With a limited but influential body of work, Vuong's ...

Allison Graves, Zilla Jones, Dilan Qadir, Liz Stewart and Isabella Wang have been named the 2025 Writers' Trust of Canada's ...

Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve ...

A festival of “music, poetry, joy and laughter” has taken place to honour the trailblazing artist and activist Benjamin ...

An author who spent eight years compiling and self-publishing two sketch books has said at times he felt he was on a delusional "fool's errands". However, Colin Hindle does not re ...

Sacramento recognized its poet laureate ahead of the release of his new poetry book, “Unlocked: The Laureate Years.” ...

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And finally, if your child loves the beauty of poetry and wonders how to create poems, then “The One and Only Rumi” by Rabiah York, illustrated by Maneli Manouchehri (Penguin, $18.99) is a book to ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...