Short books that can ask immense questions about race, grief, identity, and love with powerful clarity and in compact ...

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and other outlets, is the author of six ...

Every year on June 27, we celebrate Helen Keller Day, honoring the remarkable life of Helen Adams Keller. She was an ...

Old Town Books Owner Ally Kirkpatrick and Children's Book Buyer Melissa LaSalle joined Good Morning Washington with summer ...

In Alice Pung’s family, love was imbued with anxiety and fear. But in books, adults had reasoned discussions and talked to ...

This is an older title, but as the summer heat approaches and the world spins ever closer to a total meltdown, The Ministry ...

My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directn ...

Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has – like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change – seen an outpouring of remarkable nonfiction. The Interpreters is a new book that ...

Harvard University's Houghton Library, a rare book and manuscript depository, has inherited nearly 170 boxes of John Updike's papers, including rejected short stories, personal letters and revised ...

One Golden Summer is a follow-up to Carley Fortune's debut book Every Summer After and tells the story of Alice, a ...