books

New books this week: 'Hunger Games' is back, and young people navigate a new Tanzania

10:13am March 18, 2025

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

New 'Hunger Games' prequel asks: How well do we really know our history?

7:10am March 18, 2025

Sunrise on the Reaping recounts the 50th annual Hunger Games, telling the story of Haymitch Abernathy. It's themes and events conjure images of today's U.S. political climate.

Arts

'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' is Stephen Graham Jones' horror masterpiece

1:53pm March 17, 2025

The prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex. The author of The Only Good Indians returns again with a spellbinding yarn about one of the bloodiest, most significant parts of the nation's history.

New books this week: A foodie memoir, a missing child, witches illustrated, and more

9:07am March 11, 2025

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones

2:37pm February 26, 2025

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

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Tom Robbins, at a 2014 reading of his memoir Tibetan Peach Pie at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Ore.

Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92

6:48pm February 09, 2025

Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

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Are picture books undervalued? This new ambassador of children's literature thinks so

5:43pm February 06, 2025

by Andrew Limbong

The Library of Congress has given Mac Barnett the job of promoting books and reading to kids across the country. His plan is to focus on picture books.

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Neil Gaiman's former nanny files rape, human trafficking lawsuit

11:47am February 04, 2025

The lawsuit alleges that Gaiman coerced sexual services from his former live-in nanny, and that Palmer "knowingly benefited" from Gaiman's actions.

We can't wait to read these 10 books hitting shelves soon

9:20am January 09, 2025

From the fictional story of a pregnant woman stuck in an IKEA during an earthquake, to in-depth reporting on Alzheimer's research, here are the books we're looking forward to in the next few months.

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Percival Everett wins the National Book Award fiction prize

1:20am November 21, 2024

Everett's novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. The prestigious literary prize also awards the best in non-fiction, poetry, translated literature and young people's literature.

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