Black history, well told

Sixty-seven years after the savage murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, his…

Here’s How Moms For Liberty Is Lying About Books

This week across the book banning social media world, a new guidebook…

The Book Banners’ Recruitment Agenda: Book Censorship News, February 3, 2023

There are only so many ways to state that book censorship is…

On the Radar: Orphan X returns

How about we get February underway with an action thriller that not…

The Golden Spoon

“The Great British Baking Show” meets Knives Out in The Golden Spoon,…

The Greenleaf Murders by RJ Koreto

The sense of place is so strong in some crime novels that…

Kerry Washington Publishing First Book This Fall

Kerry Washington will publish her first memoir on September 26, 2023 in…

Small-town Japan and small-town America as crime novel settings

The American crime author Lea O’Harra has lived in small-town America and…

A Flag for Juneteenth

When you gaze at the quilted cover of A Flag for Juneteenth,…

Here are the Best LGBTQ YA and Kids’ Books of 2022, According to ALA’s Rainbow Round Table

The Rainbow Round Table is part of the American Library Association. It…

Irish crime drama North Sea Connection comes to BBC Four

The highly-rated RTÉ crime show North Sea Connection is coming to BBC…

Confronting Saddam Hussein

On February 28, 2003, as President George W. Bush prepared to authorize…

The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn…

The Swifts

It can be fun to speculate about nature versus nurture, to consider…

The Love You Save

Goldie Taylor’s absolutely stunning memoir is dedicated to “the women who made…

An Open Letter to Stephen King: Book Censorship News, January 27, 2023

Dear Stephen King: Last week, you had a tweet take off. I’ve…

On the Radar: Last seen in Lapaz

When we say Lapaz, we mean the town in Ghana, rather than…

In Every Life

Two-time Caldecott Honor recipient Marla Frazee brings her considerable talents to a…

Damascus Station by David McCloskey

Fans of realistic spy fiction will enjoy David McCloskey’s debut thriller Damascus…

You’ve Missed the Plot: Book Price Increases Contribute to Ongoing Censorship

Earlier this week, I dug into the ways in which YA paperback…

The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

Long-running crime series are like an addiction. Once you’ve started with book…

The Bone Records by Rich Zahradnik

What’s most fun about Rich Zahradnik’s new crime thriller set in Brooklyn…

Evergreen

This home-and-back-again adventure tale belongs to Evergreen, a wide-eyed squirrel who lives…

Hearts of Steel

Maggie Molinaro survived a hardscrabble childhood in the downtrodden streets of Manhattan…