A multicultural group of children discovers a park where everyone’s words come to life, looking and behaving a lot like kids.

“Careless People,” “A Fractured Liberation,” “The Float Test,” and “Your Steps on the Stairs.” ...

What follows is reported in the mode of pure observation: the body washed and wrapped in gauze “like a small mummy”; the ...

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

In books like “My Marriage Sabbatical,” “All Fours” and “Consider Yourself Kissed,” women carve out a place between marriage and divorce. John Cassidy’s “Capitalism and Its Critics ...

Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at Book World. Before joining The Washington Post, she served as assistant literary editor of the New Republic and worked toward her PhD in philosophy ...

Considered the best book of the year according to NPR, these memoirs written by Marcelo Hernández Castillo shed light on the tragedy of immigration from his personal experience crossing the border as ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996 ... Below, you’ll find our list of essential works of nonfiction published in the U.S. from 1996 ...

Kyle Lukoff, illus. by Levi Hastings. Simon & Schuster, Apr., ages 4–8 In what PW’s starred review called “an approachable, engaging work,” Newbery Honoree Lukoff details “how LGBTQ+ ...

This book introduces students of law and history to key colonial moments that have shaped women’s legal status and tracks the shifts and changes that have occurred, especially over the last 30 years, ...

Looking to develop her skills, she joined two of our creative writing short courses at Central Saint Martins and has now agreed a two-book deal with Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House.

Bernstein, author (l) and her BookFest Award-winning nonfiction book (r). Baltimore author Amy L ... is described as an exploration of self-doubt pervasive in the creative mind, and how self-doubt can ...