Self-help books can be an accessible starting point of one’s reading journey, and an introduction to other forms of writing and cultures.

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From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists.

Nancy MacDonell’s new book, Empresses of Seventh Avenue, tells the stories of a different era of American talents, the female ...

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It is important for boys to have the kind of children’s art that shows them the things that engage them in becoming good men.

In three new picture books for young readers, change arrives on feathers, with aspiration, love and heartbreak: recommendations from columnist and teacher.

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UChicago course examines the transformation trope across literature and film—from repressed desire to outsider identities ...

For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral ...