Podcasts And Audiobooks Reach Out To A New Audience: Children
There are so many entertainment offerings for children and their parents, it can be hard to choose. We look at podcasts and audiobooks for children.
Books
In 'The Chalk Artist,' A Plea For Real-World Connection
While the love story in Allegra Goodman's latest novel can seem formulaic, she captures the allure of video gaming and the tension between real-world art and literature and the fantasy worlds online.
Confronting The Possibility Of Monsters In 'The Essex Serpent'
The clash between science and religious belief lies at the heart of Sarah Perry's new novel, set in a marshy, windswept English town menaced by a serpentine monster that may or may not truly exist.
'Mormama' Is A House Built On Quicksand
Kit Reed's would-be Southern Gothic chiller starts strong, with an amnesiac man stumbling into a house haunted by family secrets — but is ultimately undone by issues of plot, pacing and voice work.
Tracy K. Smith, New U.S. Poet Laureate, Calls Poems Her 'Anchor'
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet says she plans to use her new role to meet people who don't read poetry ... yet, anyway. She believes poetry can be a resource for people in fraught or isolating times.
Tracy K. Smith Named U.S. Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress has named Tracy K. Smith as the the country's new poet laureate. She's the author of three collections of poetry and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012.
What Makes A Good Whodunit? 'Magpie Murders' Author Spells It Out
Anthony Horowitz's latest novel is a whodunit about whodunits. He says, "I wanted it to be ... a sort of a treatise on the whole genre of murder mystery writing."
Journalist Ventured 'Behind The Lines Of Jihad' To Interview The World's Most Wanted
Washington Post correspondent Souad Mekhennet has risked kidnapping and imprisonment to report on extremist groups, such as ISIS and the Taliban. Her new memoir is I Was Told to Come Alone.
Prog Rock Gets Some Respect In 'The Show That Never Ends'
David Weigel is primarily a political reporter, but in The Show that Never Ends he spins his love of prog rock into a detailed, affectionate history of a genre that's never completely gone away.
'So Much Blue' Is Percival Everett's Best Yet
By turns funny, shocking and heartbreaking, Everett's new novel follows a painter who's deeply ambivalent about his apparently idyllic life and digs into the moments in his past that shaped him.